Are there any normal office printers?

Question

Hi HN,so My office printer (an HP inkjet-scanner office box) has just informed me via a printed page that it cannot print any more because it cannot ask the HP servers if it is allowed to print. Every time I try to print something it just spits out that page!Its in the WiFi, can connect to the internet and I can see its traffic on the network but for whatever reason it cannot parse the responses it gets from the HP servers so it disabled itself...I have given up on it and am looking at replacement options but I cannot find any office printers that explicitly state that they will work as long as their cartridges are full.Are there really no Dumb printers any more?

_ah · Accepted Answer

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tacostakohashi · Answer

A normal office printer is a laser printer, which uses toner.An "inkjet-scanner office box" is a device that exists primarily for the purpose of perpetuating a decades-old ink refill scam.

jotjotzzz · Answer

I use the Brother hd2270dw at home. It has WiFi printing but doesn't require the internet to print anything. You can also plug into it the old fashioned way and the toner is affordable.

a2800276 · Answer

I have a Ricoh color laser printer (mc250fwb) which is absolutely wonderful hardware and toner wise, but the linux drivers are only provided as a self extracting exe-file, and the scanner feed is not supported.
The Android app is the biggest piece of crap imaginable. It can only scan to an app internal folder, and scans can only be moved to dropbox or google docs, not to public folders accessible to other apps on the device. And you have to move them individually, the only bulk operation is delete.
The windows driver is not as terrible, but ... wouldn't rate it better than "meh".
So great hardware, terrible driver situation.

pawelduda · Answer

Go with brother, brother

nektro · Answer

inkjet is the issue. laser is what you need my friend