New Printer, Again (2025)
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Last time I bought a printer was mid-2014. I get a Dell C2665dnf.
All-in-one, color laser, duplex printing, duplex scanning, got Mac support, can network via Ethernet, can scan to email, scan to (S)FTP, can print to "odd sizes" like an envelope via multipurpose paper feeding tray, etc.Today, that printer broke - some plastic part broke and now I cannot reinsert the paper tray.
(And it broke soon after I bought new toner$ too. 
)Tried to look for a replacement at Dell, and learnt that Dell got out of the printer business in 2016.
For the new printer, I basically want all the same functionalities that the old one had. (New concern is whether the printer has stringent requirement to force you to use only OEM toner cartridges ... but hard to find a reliable answer for that.)
Settled on a Brothers MFCL3780CDW and placed the order.
Brief research on Amazon.com shows that people are relatively unhappy with their all-in-one printers these days (comparing their satisfaction with other products). Using the 1-to-5 star scale, the MFCL3780CDW appears relatively "very highly rated" at 4.2 stars, with another contender with 4.3 stars that's a monochrome printer. Most other all-in-one printers got 4.0 or fewer stars. The two highest rated brands appear to be Brothers and Cannon. I went with a Brothers because reviews seem to indicate that Brothers supports the macOS better than Canon does.
Wish me luck.
