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What on Earth does a printer need a subscription for!?
Call me stupid, but I do not even understand this. I'm serious.

Since consumer printers, especially inkjets, are garbage right from factory on (my ink printer with CD/DVD printing function failed right after warranty expired – some coincidence, huh) it might be worth a try looking at used printers from an formally upper price range.
Might be troublesome with drivers if using modern Windows, but generally old laser printers are neigh indestructible
 
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IIRC Brother printers don't deal with this bullshit. Alternatively get a second hand one, I use an older HP printer and just buy cartridges.

KleinesSinchen said:
What on Earth does a printer need a subscription for!?
Call me stupid, but I do not even understand this. I'm serious.
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Fuck big printer
 
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Flame said:
is it possible to buy a good printer without subscription these days?

or any alternate solution.
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In terms of consumer printers, AFAIK they're all optional.

Although you may want to be careful with ones that lock out third party ink/toner or just get the ink tank systems.

KleinesSinchen said:
What on Earth does a printer need a subscription for!?
Call me stupid, but I do not even understand this. I'm serious.
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The ones I'm aware of basically act as an alternative to just buying ink/toner.

Years ago I had HP Instant Ink which gave me about 50 pages per month.

It has it's swings and roundabouts because it meant I could print full page colour without worrying about how much ink I was using, however, it also meant I had to be careful with what was being printed e.g. pages with a single line of text.

People have made mistakes with these though, mainly thinking that they can still use the ink after they cancel the plan, which whilst on the surface wasteful makes sense from a business stand point and it was clear to me from the start what I was paying for.

It does also require the printer to be connected to the internet.

Note: I haven't been subscribed for a few years due to price rises making it no longer worthwhile.
 
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I have a brother hl-2350dw mono laser printer. Does me fine, 0 trouble. Had it a couple of years, never given me any trouble, haven't had to change the toner yet.

So I vote for whatever is the cheapest brother printer that fits what you want.
 
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KleinesSinchen said:
What on Earth does a printer need a subscription for!?
Call me stupid, but I do not even understand this. I'm serious.

Since consumer printers, especially inkjets, are garbage right from factory on (my ink printer with CD/DVD printing function failed right after warranty expired – some coincidence, huh) it might be worth a try looking at used printers from an formally upper price range.
Might be troublesome with drivers if using modern Windows, but generally old laser printers are neigh indestructible
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Not everyone prints a massive amount of paper these days, some subscriptions cover ink cartridges and paper every month such as hp. It's not overly expensive $10 a month gets you about 50 prints. Some people go to the library and get charged 10c a page to print.
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Flame said:
is it possible to buy a good printer without subscription these days?

or any alternate solution.
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oh yes, of course, i would however not recommend getting an inkjet one, those can be notoriously costly in the long run (per page price).

I would recommend you look for Laserprinters! They do cost more initially but the price per page is much lower, they are also much faster and WHILE a "refill" (or whatever the proper english translation would be for what i mean) is costlier, you have to do so much more rarely.

I only have an old laserprinter, only black and white, hadnt had to "refill" anything and been using it for 6 or 7 years straight now.

Sometimes going for a product that is initially pricier... can save you a LOT of money in the long run, also no predatory nonsense with laserprinters. Buying inkjet-printers is a proper minefield!
 
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Also @Flame I'd do research on how often models go obsolete just over ink cartridges they can still be the most expensive part of the printer obviously and two years down the road might not even make cartridges for that model. This is part of why I said screw it and got sucked into the subscription side I rarely print but each person has different uses. Now days I honestly use my hp printer just to scan documents I get in the mail and fax them to corperations if I got to. Hp has a weird app feature you can send out all types of eFax PDF, jpg etc... but can't be faxed anything back, yes some companies still rely on fax only making this option in a printer useful.
 
Brother Laser printers indeed seem to be the only way to go these days, as long as you don't need to print in color.

Otherwise, you'd probably be better off printing at your local library.
 

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