The Verge article on the best printer in 2024 is just completely brilliant in so many ways.

And also kinda sad.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers

After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

The Verge
@ross They're on point. I bought one of those brother cheapies for less than 100€ recently, and it's working great. Apparently they have been churning out my exact model for at least ten years now. It doesn't have wifi, has no cloud integration, doesn't even have a display, but just works without a fuss, and does an adequate job.
@jaseg @ross I still have my 15 years old Kyocera FS-1300D. It has 6LED that clearly communicate its status, a chunky real power switch, it has no wifi (to be fair not even LAN, so it dangles on a lan to usb print server), I have forgotten when I last changed toner (that i all bought 15 years ago) and it is just there and prints when i need a print and nothing else.

@Zitruskeks @jaseg @ross we have a Kyocera Ecosys colour laser printer at home and honestly it just works

It does have Ethernet and Wi-Fi, though, which was one of the main reasons I got it — I wanted a network printer

The only thing that did not work was Google Cloud Print; the device went into crash loop if you had that set up

@Zitruskeks @jaseg @ross the toner cartridge solution for these printers is ‘use a soldering iron to melt a hole in the side, pour toner in, stick electrical tape over the hole’