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Time to upgrade to a laser printer. Was hoping the community could point me to a printer without chipped cartridges that will lock me into buying a specific brand replacement. I’d like to refill the toner manaully to save money and waste.
Open to new printer or I can find an older printer if that is the way to go.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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yep we love the Brother printers too, link here
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I have a color Brother at my home office, but for printing packing slips at my warehouse shipping station, I use a black-only HP LaserJet that I’ve had for over 10 years. A very basic printer, no wireless, I think I paid around $100 for it back then. Third-party toner cartridges are very cheap and I’ve never had a problem with them. I used to print labels with it too and I really liked the front-facing tray for optional feed without removing the normal tray. For new sellers wanting a dedicated printer for printing labels and packing slips economically, I think this is still a good option and used ones should be very inexpensive. I will buy another one for printing packing slips when this one finally quits.
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About a month ago, I saw this printer on sale for either $60 or $70:
https://www.staples.com/Brother-HL-L2320D-Monochrome-Laser-Printer/product_1074269I didn’t buy it because I didn’t really need it yet. Our inkjet is fine, and I don’t really have a space to put a second printer. I like the idea of not having to do the maintenance and paying less for the ink, so I’m still thinking about it. Is there any reason not to get this model, which is the cheapest they have?
Even for personal stuff, I rarely print in color, but I’d still keep the inkjet for that purpose.
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That printer looks like it would do the job for printing shipping labels. Nice that it has 2 trays if you are planning on printing both labels and packing slips with it. No wireless, so you will have to keep it within cord reach of the computer you are using. Very basic, but then you aren’t expecting to print photos, etc. Pretty much equivalent to my old HP LaserJet.
Back when I was printing labels with a laser printer, I found some 4-up label sheets and configured my printing app to print to those, cutting my label expense 50%. I have no idea if you can do that with eBay shipping.
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Another Brother backer here. We have the Brother HLL2395DW. Rarely have to change the toner, handles duplex printing with no issues, fast and quiet. Staples runs great sales & coupons, so our cost was about $50 after ink recycling (a must for any scavenger!) and coupons.
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When I switched from inkjet to a Brother laser printer for labels, I thought that there would be no problem with ink running (as Steve describes above), so I was initially thrilled. But with the laser printed label, when you run your hand across it to affix it, and when it rubs against other packages, the printing fades really quickly – does anybody else have that problem? I’ve been putting clear shipping tape on top of the bar code and addresses as a workaround – anybody else find themselves having to do this?
I have the Brother HL-L2340DW
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Ditto on the Brother printer.
The XL cartridge is rated at 2600 pages. I bought my printer on sale at Office Depot a while back for $100. I couldn’t be happier.
If you look at Resources tab on this site, Ryanne explains it all. She also has a video on refilling the cartridges.
Good Luck
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Thank you all for taking the time to respond. I got busy at work yesterday so I wasn’t able to jump back on the forum.
I was thinking about Brother as well based on Ryanne’s rec and the video of her refilling the toner. From what you all have said I guess the newer cartridges can be refilled manually as well. When I went to pick out a newer Brother printer, the chipped cartridge made me think it was locked down in some way.
Now I’m off to do some hard core price comparisons. 🙂
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