Re: 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

there are only printers, the universe is a printer, reject humanity embrace printer 2024, Jun 30

"Here's the best printer in 2023: the Brother laser printer that everyone has. Stop thinking about it and just buy one. It will be fine!"

"It's weird because the correct answer to the query "what is the best printer" has not changed [since then], but an entire ecosystem of content farms seems motivated to constantly update articles about printers [.....] Pointing out that incentive structure and the culture that's developed around it seems to make a lot of people mad, which is also interesting!"

- Nilay Patel for The Verge, here and here.

Honestly, I don't really have anything to say on this blog. Why not help this poor dood out? I mean, she sounded kinda delusioned over the whole printer debacle last time. Like check the title I just ctrl+C ctrl+V'd it into my blog WTF is that.

At the very least, it seems her efforts wern't in vain. A commenter claimed that her article made the Google first page. Sure enough, that was true.

Y'know what? Just for fun, I tried searching "Best printer" in Bing, Google, and DuckDuckGo with a private window. DDG is a stupid name, tho. Suggestion, get a better name if you guys want to go mainstream. Oh yeah, "X".

(Yes i just figured out you can nest <small> tags and im having a ball RN)

Well, all engines thankfully do pull up articles suggesting Brother printers (maybe word has gotten arround?). Patel's article only appeared on the Google first page but I guess it's fine since Google is like, currently the biggest f*king search engine to have ever engined. IMO people are prolly going to keep buying Brother printers as long as there's enough patience and critical thinking to go arround.

But Jojo, what about your personal experiences?

Ah i do have a Brother HL-1110 at home hooked up to the family wintel box. However, I don't really touch the wintel box as it seems to always get random errors and stuff after I do. I prefer to get my laptop down and print from that, and even so, that's kind of rare.

Brother offers Linux i386-compatible drivers for the HL-1110. I don't know how groundbreaking this fact is but I feel it's worth mentioning as it seems to me that Linux i386 (ie. 32-bit) support seems to have dropped off rapidly everywhere else. So congrats. However, this is where the experience honestly shakes. Ubuntu 16 LTS seems to use some crap drivers by default so you must get the official drivers from Brother, and Fedora on Dartha is even more misrable, giving a hit and miss affair even with them. I choose to see this as an OS-level problem, and I think most ppl would have Windows 10 boxes at least so it shoudn't manifest itself.

A lizard made it into the print element early into it's life and caused all prints from then on to be blotchy. The element was replaced without hassle. Indeed, it seems to be a third party element, which, in case you're an idiot like me, is pretty much the entire reason to just use Brother printers that don't turn replacing ink carts into digital lockpicking last I heard.

Since replacing the element the prints have been clear and crisp. They also have the added bonus of being nice and warm when fresh. The printer donsn't print double-sided, but that can be replicated with some clever software/fiddling with page order and manually flipping the prints halfway in. Also, Windows has a print option that does this automatically and even provides some on-screen instructions. The Ubuntu and Fedora I tried don't do that =[ .

I'd rate the printing experience 8/10au as most problems seem to be coming from being introduced to uncommon circumstances and not from the printer itself. Good job printer.

Allright, then. Final words?

Firstly, I wrote this article to get that funny "we are all printers" thing into my site. Also, hopefully I get to boost the rankings of the posts just a little. Every bit helps. Although I dont really know Google can have pigeons selecting web pages or something and they'll choose to drop Patel's articles at seeing this post IDK.

Go visit Patel's articles and The Verge. Thank you all for coming.

Update 2024, Jul 1 Brohter's driver install utility uses the model number "HL-1110" for my printer model. This number replaces my mistake of listing it as "HL1100", which prabably is a model that doesn't exist. Sorry.