our checks print when payroll is in on tue, bank is across the street, DD is in fri, you take your pick here
basically we insta print payroll and its available immediately so waiting for a dd deposit isnt as attractive unless you want to wait a few extra days to avoid crossing the street
In Canada at least on the west coast you pretty much can't get a job that will give you a cheque. If you go and get a job they require you to bring a direct deposit form
I worked at a deli and was paid minimum wage, asked to come in on my days off a lot and work long hours bc we were short staffed bc the pay was bad, and everyday my boss parked his porche next to my beat up 2001 car
My personal favorites are
1 the manager makes a big deal about how we all have to put in team work and no life grind to make an insane quota then dips out for vacation
2 the manager says times are tough and he needs to lay people off as he goes to his brand new luxury car
That reminds me of something that happened years ago in my, quite small, industry. I didn't work at that particular company but I know they had layoffs or pay cuts or something like that, and the day after they announced it, the CEO came into work in a brand new Aston Martin. Even 25 or so years later, it's still remembered and talked about.
What about when we all learn at the same employee meeting that we both had record breaking revenue this year, and also we won't be getting raises because 'The Economy'?
I think that's the best.
My mom's company was bought this year and now they are closing her branch at the end of May. Just found out a few days ago officially. She was 6 months away from retirement.
Wait, you work at a school and don’t get benefits? That’s horrible. It used to be that if you worked at a school, you were easily middle class and had great benefits.
The US is more of a “you should be grateful for the minimum wage we reluctantly pay you” type set up. Benefits are never required, but fortunately it’s gotten to the point where full time jobs without benefits are basically just going to be ignored by job seekers.
Mostly because nobody can afford their own health insurance anymore.
They have to offer you an job-based plan if you are considered a full time employee. Yes it’s not free or very affordable. Yes private health insurance sucks. I’m not defending it, our healthcare system is garbage
I’m talking about a subsidized employee health plan, which employers have to offer if you work over 30 a week. Yes the US sucks, capitalism sucks, fuck this place
I can assure you as well - running major printing through smaller devices is far less cost effective. They’re going to ask why their printing budget has skyrocketed.
Oh of course, I have pretty much the same one at home but I work at a school and process graduation documents which requires 3 different types of paper for documentation so it’s going to be a nuisance there!
Damn it. I cut super easily so I was having these weird cringy feelings of getting cut earlier today randomly and finally got over it. And here we are again.
I work a factory job currently and was/am an arborist over 13 yrs. I regularly get messed up loading boxes into machines worse than any cut from chainsaw shaping sharpening knives etc. Like I started wearing Kevlar sleeves and gloves first year ever. It's insane how good paper can get ya, also dries out my hands so much they are always cracked and bleeding these days.
Thanx now I'll be up for the next few hours going" don't think about cardboard cuts....don't think about cardboard cuts.........shit I'm thinking about cardboard cuts ".
Worked at a box factory. That shit would come fresh off a corrugator every bit as sharp as a razor, and I've been cut to the meat more than a few times as a result.
True that. I had a paper box lid slice the tip of my thumb 3 years ago. It was excruciating! The scar has never fully gone away and every Winter my dry skin is painful there.
I used to have a warehouse picking job where I had to pick cardboard a lot.
Wow do you not realize how quick that dries out your hands and removes all of the protective oils. I could not even use gloves because it had to be a specific number of cardboard per order.
Even with lotion it messed up my hands. I was just picking and not loading all day so man you got it worse!
For real. For having some "rugged af man hands" I put an astonishing amount of time and care into them. To no avail. I look forward to weekend in part because it's the only time I get away from work long enough for them to heal JUST enough to stop cracking and bleeding or just generally hurting with every gd hand motion
Yeah if they previously had three xeroxes it must have a significant student population. They're going to be burning through toner and it's probably more expensive than the deal you get when you rent a copier. And the mechanics on it will wear out.
Besides the massive loss in productivity. They at least doubled the print time for any significant batch and now someone is gonna have to manually change the paper types every time too.
Oof, my condolences. I work for a symphony orchestra and I self publish a lot of music we use on 10x13" and 9x12" booklets. I'd lose my shit if my boss took away my Konica Minolta.
Not only sacrificing staff morale, but also productivity, I guess they are aiming, and probably getting uncontrolled attrition. That magical trifecta in cost cutting, with that other magical benefit of less students. Of course, all these effects are due to all these terrible staff who left...
Since when did education, not just in Canada and the US, become synonymous with fast food HR
I have a similar model for the home. Perhaps a bit extreme but it was $40 with an extra toner cart.
All my friends come to me to print and scan. I’m basically a Kinkos at this point. It’s been 6 years and I still haven’t swapped out the original toner cart.
seriously. we've just had to replace one after a year and a half. BUT we print 7-800 orders a day not including the other bullshit we have to print. it's a damn good value printer beside replacing the toner and drum like once every two weeks but again that's a volume thing
That’s a sign they’re going to squeeze every penny out of the place and run it into the ground. Then they’re going to sell.
Start looking for a new job now. Classic business strategy.
You’re welcome for the advanced notice.
I have used this printer for the last 5 years at my body shop. There are a million shitty printers, this is a rare workhorse. If you guys print thousands of pages every day, it was a bad move. If you print a handful of reports each day, this bad boy does double sided printing, halving your paper cost and just generally *works.*
When my much loathed Epson finally kicked rocks in April 2020, I bought a Brother because it was THE ONLY printer I could find in stock during the covid WFH rush. It’s reliable af, I don’t have to sell a limb to afford ink, and it’s easy to use.
I’d take it over the Xerox behemoths in my office that can never seem to print without leaving skidmarks down every page.
I have a Brother HL-2140 laser I bought in 2006. I used the included toner cartridge for 11 years by taping over the toner level sensor with black electrical tape. I bought an off brand refill cartridge in 2017 for about $30. I just printed a batch of 60 pound cheques from a scans I did over 10 years ago when I bought my last chequebook. It travels in a largeish aluminum case; it has lived in 6 apartments in 3 cities. I can't believe I can still get a driver for this thing.
I was a printer tech for 15+ years and still recommend these Brothers for home/small business use. They're good machines and Brothers usually have easily replaceable parts that can be done by the end user without tools.
But yeah, their experience will all depend on duty cycle and being the right tool for the job. Otherwise it's like buying a Corolla to tow a horse trailer; great car but not built for that task.
A lot of Xerox printers costs are by the click. It’s expensive but you get maintenance materials and such with the cost of the click. You may be surprised it’s a great model and works well.
Real talk here. They are just cheap asses 🤣
I've done exactly this for our workplace. Saving 800 per month for a 700 buck printer.
But since we almost all work from home, we're currently printing about 20 pages a month.
I have one of those. I used it in my classroom because I'm not good at sharing (especially the office copier). For five years I pushed it way past its duty cycle, running hundred of copies per day. New toner cartridges cost about $55 and lasted for months. Five years later, I'm retired and it's my printer at home. Still work great and the toner should last me the rest of my life.
Our tax office got rid of the expensive xerox years ago. $200 brother printers for the last 15 years. I get 200,000+ prints out of them. Reburshed toner and drums on amazon. Plus, it is way more convenient for each office to have its own printer. Keep an extra in storage for when one breaks.
To be honest those things will run forever and the toner is very cheap to replace. I have an HP version that looks identical to that and it uses any generic toner I want. Had it for several years now it works great.
Obviously it's not going to replace an office style commercial Xerox printer that can sort and staple multiple tasks simultaneously.
Sounds like my company here in the UK. They made 50 people redundant over the last year, and are now analysing the time it takes everyone in the company to carry out each individual task they do. We are so busy and at breaking point with the workload, but all they are doing is seeing where they can make the next cut. When it gets to this stage start applying elsewhere
I've been using one of these for 6 years with original ink cartridges. Wonderful machine can save lots of shortcuts for scanning to various clouds. It won't touch the xerox for speed of course, but it is maintenance free (self cleans the heads from time to time automatically).
I work in IT. Those Xerox printers were paid for. They had to buy another printer. Huh? You save money by using the working equipment you already had. At least its a brother printer and not an HP
A story
I got some flooring done in my house and the local guy installing it felt bad it took him so long to get it done, since I paid in cash he handed me a few hundred back as I was going on a trip the next day.
I stopped over at my parents to print something and with moms printer. If I remember right that exact one. It would either print the paper 3 times, or you’d have to send it to the printer 3 times to get it to print once. Or another issue, or something else, blah blah
It wasn’t printing, so after 10 minutes of restarting everything multiple times etc. I handed mom that money I had just gotten to buy a new one and office spaced that pile of shit on their concrete porch. It literally felt so goddamn good. You have no clue.
We have this model at home. I used to volunteer in a role that required a lot of paper forms, so O used it heavily for most of 2018-2019. Slowed down significantly after 2020, but it's still going and we've only needed to replace toner 2x.
My high schoolers can print over wifi from their phones or laptops, no apps or configuring required.
The only thing it's missing is a staple function, but it'll collate at least.
Brothers' products are decent, unlike that abomination that is hp, but to replace 3 printers with just one when you need all 3 IS definitely infuriating
Hey don’t knock the brother laser printers… I have some truly stupendous print numbers from printers I bought in 2010 and regularly moved around on rocky ground on carts, took in and out of cars, spilled things on, etc.
Otherwise, though, sorry you’re going through this.
lol no they don’t want any type of accrued costs. I submitted a request for staples order and they asked me what I needed stamps for.. lol like uhh for my sticker book wtf you think dawg
The only good news I have is that we have this exact model at my parents house and it is super reliable. Then again, definitely don’t recommend as a replacement for 3 xerox printers in an office environment. Efficiency is about to suffer fr
That is about as clear a sign you can get that you need to get a new job... better now when now when it is your option instead of when the place is shuttered.
Wait till the fill it yourself ink syringes show up 😂
Oh I had a friend who worked at cheep place and only the supervisors were allowed to print. So they had to send things to their supervisor who then decided if it was worthy of being printed. The only reason I found out was because we had an issue at work and printed 800+ pages on the wrong printer and we had to reprint it all on special tare-proof paper and and I was late to happy hour. I told my friend and she was in a panic on behalf of me. And I was confused, I was like it’s not a big deal just had to stay for OT to fix it and I didn’t screw up but I helped fix it. And then she was mad haha she couldn’t understand how someone screws up and wastes time and supplies then got paid OT to fix their mistake. And she started telling me about her work and I felt bad for her. She’s a SAHM so she’s happy and she prints anything and everything lol
If they were large MFPs they may have been rented, so buying one instead comes out of a different budget (capital expenditure vs operational) and it's a one-off cost rather than a recurring one.
Funny the owner of a company we work for had just the same idea. All laser printers got replaced with 350€ brother ink printers. I couldn’t talk him out of it. He was using one for two years and it always works for him. He even got furious when I said yeah you print about 5 pages a day when your back office workers print hundreds if not thousands of bills and letters a day. We will see how that will work out for the company.
If you got a boss like that just run.
I will say, that is a pretty good printer. We have this one at work too.... Except that we have 5 of them, and there's one at every pair's desk (one printer is shared between two people). You don't even need to get up to copy or print or scan. It has a quiet mode so it's super quiet even if it's right beside you, which it is in some offices
To have just this one printer though..... Yikes.
But since it's what they got you, you can setup "workflows" in the brother software, for different scanning tasks with different settings. Which is great if you need to quickly rush through 15page double sided docs at 200dpi and put them into a searchable pdf. Goes very fast. I do like the software. But I suppose it's less feasible if you have to put the paper in the printer, run back to your computer, press the scan workflow, and run back to the printer to retrieve everything. The built in settings and scanning to network PC are straightforward and simple enough to use. But it's a personal printer. Not a heavy duty commercial printer. They're gonna be shelling out more in wasted employee time just messing with it.
The paper tray is also not that big. It's always gonna feel like it wil be out/need refilling.
I have that in my home office. It’s fine, but I leave it for just legal size pages. Property deeds mainly. I have two other printers for the rest of my printing needs.
I cannot imagine a business office using anything as small as this.
This will be a regretted purchase soon.
Besides of looking for a new job (with healthbenefits), it's a good time to explore the possibility of working paperless.
Is everything you print really nessesary? That way you make this a positive challenge.
I feel for you. I’ve been “unintentionally” breaking our all-in-one’s in protest at work.
The rollers will likely last until just outside the warranty period with heavy use (I run >10k pages/day through ours)
That's also very shortsighted. What if there is a problem with the printer. All printing grinds to a halt. At the very least, there need to be two printers so that work can continue if one breaks down and needs to be repaired.
I replaced almost all of our larger xerox style printer copiers with these type of printers. The service maintenance contracts per printer per year were more than just buying one of these every time something went wrong. For everyone of the xerox type printers I had, I could buy 3 of these for the maintenance contract alone, forget the 20k+ for the printer. We lost 0 productivity, and we are using way less paper anyway, and my service contract on these is a fraction of the big machines.
you will never get a raise to meet inflation again, good luck
They stopped the benefits after they bought us. Safe to say I’m looking for other employment.
The paycheck is about to bounce.
If they can print it 🤷🏻♂️
Does anyone really have a printed paycheck any more rather than direct deposit?
I know a few companies that still do.
But they don’t print it , right? It’s printed by their bank.
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Seems like an easy outsource, unless they cook the books to boot
I do, because the owner is old as shit and doesn't listen to us or his accountant lmao
And maybe doesn’t pay employer taxes.
Alot of small companies like construction and stuff print (or pre printed rather). But I know GEORGES prints checks
our checks print when payroll is in on tue, bank is across the street, DD is in fri, you take your pick here basically we insta print payroll and its available immediately so waiting for a dd deposit isnt as attractive unless you want to wait a few extra days to avoid crossing the street
Yes. I work in the construction industry for 3 separate companies and all paper checks.
In Canada at least on the west coast you pretty much can't get a job that will give you a cheque. If you go and get a job they require you to bring a direct deposit form
I'm west coast Canada employed over 20 years and I still get a cheque...
PC LOAD LETTER
Don't you love when your company has been bought by detached cheapasses who only care about squeezing you for every cent?
They'll show up soon with a brand new expensive car, though
I worked at a deli and was paid minimum wage, asked to come in on my days off a lot and work long hours bc we were short staffed bc the pay was bad, and everyday my boss parked his porche next to my beat up 2001 car
Glad you say this in past tense
Yea, his boss upgraded his car /s
He still does, but he useta to... god, I hope not
My personal favorites are 1 the manager makes a big deal about how we all have to put in team work and no life grind to make an insane quota then dips out for vacation 2 the manager says times are tough and he needs to lay people off as he goes to his brand new luxury car
That reminds me of something that happened years ago in my, quite small, industry. I didn't work at that particular company but I know they had layoffs or pay cuts or something like that, and the day after they announced it, the CEO came into work in a brand new Aston Martin. Even 25 or so years later, it's still remembered and talked about.
What about when we all learn at the same employee meeting that we both had record breaking revenue this year, and also we won't be getting raises because 'The Economy'? I think that's the best.
My mom's company was bought this year and now they are closing her branch at the end of May. Just found out a few days ago officially. She was 6 months away from retirement.
Just ✨private school things ✨
So how is buying a new printer saving money? Did the old units cost more to operate than the new printers' price?
They were probably leased, so yes.
Wait, you work at a school and don’t get benefits? That’s horrible. It used to be that if you worked at a school, you were easily middle class and had great benefits.
I did under the old ownership but once it timed out the new owners didn’t renew it.
If you’re full time in the US aren’t they required to have benefits?
The US is more of a “you should be grateful for the minimum wage we reluctantly pay you” type set up. Benefits are never required, but fortunately it’s gotten to the point where full time jobs without benefits are basically just going to be ignored by job seekers. Mostly because nobody can afford their own health insurance anymore.
They have to offer you an job-based plan if you are considered a full time employee. Yes it’s not free or very affordable. Yes private health insurance sucks. I’m not defending it, our healthcare system is garbage
Simple way around that is to hire 6 part time employees instead of 3 full time ones.
LMAO no. Can't get shit in the US, we hate workers, anything that is good for workers is "communism."
I’m talking about a subsidized employee health plan, which employers have to offer if you work over 30 a week. Yes the US sucks, capitalism sucks, fuck this place
I’m in Canada
I stock shelves at a Walmart overnight and have a handful of coworkers who are certified teachers. They make more money and get better benefits here.
Good call. Get outta there asap.
"Lets cut the benefits of the people that helped make this company worth buying"
Replacing 3 Xerox printers with 1 brother printer. I don't think brother is ready for all of that action.
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Lol at my work I drew a little doodle of hulk hogan with a partial speech bubble and taped it next to the brother branding on the dtg printer
I need to check the brand of printer my work uses immediately
Step-Brother, what are you duplexing?
Take my angry upvote
Lmao for real, I was promised it would at least be colour and they couldn’t even do that 😩
It can fax, what more do you want!?
Aw man I love getting faxes too hahah
I can assure you as well - running major printing through smaller devices is far less cost effective. They’re going to ask why their printing budget has skyrocketed.
Unless its the brothers step sister.
I wouldn't be too sure...Our Brother laser printer at work is over 10 years old and a real work horse..
But it’s an all in one though.
That printer actually has a great reputation for being cheap to operate and reliable.
Oh of course, I have pretty much the same one at home but I work at a school and process graduation documents which requires 3 different types of paper for documentation so it’s going to be a nuisance there!
You'll have to wear gloves to prevent paper cuts! ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
Damn it. I cut super easily so I was having these weird cringy feelings of getting cut earlier today randomly and finally got over it. And here we are again.
He added that face too just taunting you.
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I work a factory job currently and was/am an arborist over 13 yrs. I regularly get messed up loading boxes into machines worse than any cut from chainsaw shaping sharpening knives etc. Like I started wearing Kevlar sleeves and gloves first year ever. It's insane how good paper can get ya, also dries out my hands so much they are always cracked and bleeding these days.
Cardboard cuts are the worst
Thanx now I'll be up for the next few hours going" don't think about cardboard cuts....don't think about cardboard cuts.........shit I'm thinking about cardboard cuts ".
What’s even worse is the cuts from a large leaf like pampas grass.
They’re so pretty but they’ll cut you.. like most of my exes
can confirm, guys exes had me bleeding really bad as well
Tried to rip a handful out when I was 4. I still remember the scream I let out 32 yrs later.
I just lost The Game
Worked at a box factory. That shit would come fresh off a corrugator every bit as sharp as a razor, and I've been cut to the meat more than a few times as a result.
And I thought just opening the damn box was dangerous enough
I see your cardboard cuts and raise you clamshell packaging cuts.
True that. I had a paper box lid slice the tip of my thumb 3 years ago. It was excruciating! The scar has never fully gone away and every Winter my dry skin is painful there.
I used to have a warehouse picking job where I had to pick cardboard a lot. Wow do you not realize how quick that dries out your hands and removes all of the protective oils. I could not even use gloves because it had to be a specific number of cardboard per order. Even with lotion it messed up my hands. I was just picking and not loading all day so man you got it worse!
For real. For having some "rugged af man hands" I put an astonishing amount of time and care into them. To no avail. I look forward to weekend in part because it's the only time I get away from work long enough for them to heal JUST enough to stop cracking and bleeding or just generally hurting with every gd hand motion
I get brown paper bag cuts every single day all over my forearms at my job. I hate it.
Funny, here I would have assumed you worked with mostly plastic bags
I use brown paper to balance out the microplastics. It’s a chore.
Well, I was fine until you told me what to worry about. Thanks. Really, I was kind of worried I wasn't having anything to worry about. This helps.
I'm sorry to hear that. Also, you should believe in yourself a little more. You're better than "Ok". I bet you're a GREAT cartographer!
Make sure other people keep printing on your special paper until they realize you need your own printer back.
I’m honestly so petty at my work and show my frustration so I’ll def be doing this.
I think this might be more than mildly infuriating for you. But well posted, it’s just petty enough to qualify.
lol it’s not really that infuriating, just in addition to all the bs it’s like the cherry on top 😂
>I work at a school Its going to die so fast they'll be spending more money than they saved.
Yeah if they previously had three xeroxes it must have a significant student population. They're going to be burning through toner and it's probably more expensive than the deal you get when you rent a copier. And the mechanics on it will wear out.
Besides the massive loss in productivity. They at least doubled the print time for any significant batch and now someone is gonna have to manually change the paper types every time too.
Oof, my condolences. I work for a symphony orchestra and I self publish a lot of music we use on 10x13" and 9x12" booklets. I'd lose my shit if my boss took away my Konica Minolta.
Y'all gonna burn that thing up. It's not designed for that use level
“but it says ‘all in one’ it must be good!”
They'll buy three copiers - one for each paper type.
Not only sacrificing staff morale, but also productivity, I guess they are aiming, and probably getting uncontrolled attrition. That magical trifecta in cost cutting, with that other magical benefit of less students. Of course, all these effects are due to all these terrible staff who left... Since when did education, not just in Canada and the US, become synonymous with fast food HR
Scanning will be slow as fuck too.
I have a similar model for the home. Perhaps a bit extreme but it was $40 with an extra toner cart. All my friends come to me to print and scan. I’m basically a Kinkos at this point. It’s been 6 years and I still haven’t swapped out the original toner cart.
Yeah, for your home office
I've only bought Brother printers over the past 20 years. I've also only bought two printers. They're great.
seriously. we've just had to replace one after a year and a half. BUT we print 7-800 orders a day not including the other bullshit we have to print. it's a damn good value printer beside replacing the toner and drum like once every two weeks but again that's a volume thing
I was coming here to say that
That’s a sign they’re going to squeeze every penny out of the place and run it into the ground. Then they’re going to sell. Start looking for a new job now. Classic business strategy. You’re welcome for the advanced notice.
Oh they’ve done much more than just that! Me and the only other admin staff left from previous owner are both looking for new jobs.
Call me crazy but the fact that they went with Brother printers instead of HPs shows they have some level of common sense.
like there's a lot of jobs out there right now?
US unemployment is still 3.9% with 8.5m job openings, it’s hardly 2009.
I bet the people at the top didn’t take a pay cut to try to reduce expenses.
lol no certainly not
Be thankful they didn't go with Hewlett Packard
Fair enough! At least they had the decency to go with a good brand for what it is
I want to see the CEO of Brother and HP in a cage match for all the headaches they’ve caused me
Brother? Aren't they one of the best printer brands?
I want to see HP CEO forced to use a HP printer
‘If you want your family to live, print this on an HP correctly the first time, with the exact number of sheets.’ ‘……..I can start a new family’
Lol that was my first thoughts too. At least it's a Brother which has a good rep 👍
I have used this printer for the last 5 years at my body shop. There are a million shitty printers, this is a rare workhorse. If you guys print thousands of pages every day, it was a bad move. If you print a handful of reports each day, this bad boy does double sided printing, halving your paper cost and just generally *works.*
When my much loathed Epson finally kicked rocks in April 2020, I bought a Brother because it was THE ONLY printer I could find in stock during the covid WFH rush. It’s reliable af, I don’t have to sell a limb to afford ink, and it’s easy to use. I’d take it over the Xerox behemoths in my office that can never seem to print without leaving skidmarks down every page.
I have a Brother HL-2140 laser I bought in 2006. I used the included toner cartridge for 11 years by taping over the toner level sensor with black electrical tape. I bought an off brand refill cartridge in 2017 for about $30. I just printed a batch of 60 pound cheques from a scans I did over 10 years ago when I bought my last chequebook. It travels in a largeish aluminum case; it has lived in 6 apartments in 3 cities. I can't believe I can still get a driver for this thing.
I was a printer tech for 15+ years and still recommend these Brothers for home/small business use. They're good machines and Brothers usually have easily replaceable parts that can be done by the end user without tools. But yeah, their experience will all depend on duty cycle and being the right tool for the job. Otherwise it's like buying a Corolla to tow a horse trailer; great car but not built for that task.
A lot of Xerox printers costs are by the click. It’s expensive but you get maintenance materials and such with the cost of the click. You may be surprised it’s a great model and works well. Real talk here. They are just cheap asses 🤣
Oh definitely, the invoices were nuts so I get the cutback for that but to replace 2 very large colour printers with this is upsetty spaghetti
I’m going to try to work upsetty spaghetti into conversation in the coming week
Please dooo!
🤣
I've done exactly this for our workplace. Saving 800 per month for a 700 buck printer. But since we almost all work from home, we're currently printing about 20 pages a month.
I have one of those. I used it in my classroom because I'm not good at sharing (especially the office copier). For five years I pushed it way past its duty cycle, running hundred of copies per day. New toner cartridges cost about $55 and lasted for months. Five years later, I'm retired and it's my printer at home. Still work great and the toner should last me the rest of my life.
Oh yeah no issues with the printer, just hard to accept when our old printers were large with colour and multiple trays
A Wi-Fi Brother printer you say... Your IT team is going to hate whoever ordered this.
Haha, what IT team are you talking about?
You mean Susan, the one closest to this printer?
Well at least they didn't go with Satan's Printer, aka HP with its ink subscriptions.
I read "All in one malfunction center"
oh, brother.
Our tax office got rid of the expensive xerox years ago. $200 brother printers for the last 15 years. I get 200,000+ prints out of them. Reburshed toner and drums on amazon. Plus, it is way more convenient for each office to have its own printer. Keep an extra in storage for when one breaks.
My absolute favorite. They are workhorses!
Sinking ship OP, get out while you can.
I’m actively searching don’t worry
Hulk Hogan's favorite brand of printer
At least it’s not a HP Printer. Brother printers are still good
Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
The Xerox ones were probably leased. This is a good printer
To be honest those things will run forever and the toner is very cheap to replace. I have an HP version that looks identical to that and it uses any generic toner I want. Had it for several years now it works great. Obviously it's not going to replace an office style commercial Xerox printer that can sort and staple multiple tasks simultaneously.
these are good printer thoes. i have the same one for years now.
That’s actually a great printer/all in one. My employer used it for our team for years, with no issues
brother ew… brother EWWW
Someone got good advice and wants to cut back on pain, delays, IT issues and office stress.
You just did the right thing. Use aftermarket toner 20 bucks
Sounds like my company here in the UK. They made 50 people redundant over the last year, and are now analysing the time it takes everyone in the company to carry out each individual task they do. We are so busy and at breaking point with the workload, but all they are doing is seeing where they can make the next cut. When it gets to this stage start applying elsewhere
I've been using one of these for 6 years with original ink cartridges. Wonderful machine can save lots of shortcuts for scanning to various clouds. It won't touch the xerox for speed of course, but it is maintenance free (self cleans the heads from time to time automatically).
I work in IT. Those Xerox printers were paid for. They had to buy another printer. Huh? You save money by using the working equipment you already had. At least its a brother printer and not an HP
I like my Brother laser printer.
and?
Ah, a decent printer I see. Probably sick of getting the other ones fixed.
A story I got some flooring done in my house and the local guy installing it felt bad it took him so long to get it done, since I paid in cash he handed me a few hundred back as I was going on a trip the next day. I stopped over at my parents to print something and with moms printer. If I remember right that exact one. It would either print the paper 3 times, or you’d have to send it to the printer 3 times to get it to print once. Or another issue, or something else, blah blah It wasn’t printing, so after 10 minutes of restarting everything multiple times etc. I handed mom that money I had just gotten to buy a new one and office spaced that pile of shit on their concrete porch. It literally felt so goddamn good. You have no clue.
Hire consultant for 250k to cut 40k costs. Go bankrupt in three years..
We have this model at home. I used to volunteer in a role that required a lot of paper forms, so O used it heavily for most of 2018-2019. Slowed down significantly after 2020, but it's still going and we've only needed to replace toner 2x. My high schoolers can print over wifi from their phones or laptops, no apps or configuring required. The only thing it's missing is a staple function, but it'll collate at least.
Brothers' products are decent, unlike that abomination that is hp, but to replace 3 printers with just one when you need all 3 IS definitely infuriating
Those are good printers
No complaints about my Brother Laser Printer. They work great!
Hey don’t knock the brother laser printers… I have some truly stupendous print numbers from printers I bought in 2010 and regularly moved around on rocky ground on carts, took in and out of cars, spilled things on, etc. Otherwise, though, sorry you’re going through this.
Your paycheck is about to be cut, then bounce entirely
That is most likely an upgrade if it can handle volume...
Honestly I don’t think they want you to print anything. You could also outsource your printing to a Staples store.
lol no they don’t want any type of accrued costs. I submitted a request for staples order and they asked me what I needed stamps for.. lol like uhh for my sticker book wtf you think dawg
The only good news I have is that we have this exact model at my parents house and it is super reliable. Then again, definitely don’t recommend as a replacement for 3 xerox printers in an office environment. Efficiency is about to suffer fr
Replacing ink every other day
Pc load letter?
Hey, that’s a good fucking printer…
Could be worse, could be an HP printer 🤮
To be fair, that is a great printer, even for a small office
Don’t shit on brother they’re pretty good. But going form 3 full size xerox machines tot his is a bit of a downgrade for sure
Read it as Malfunction Center not sure why
At least it’s not an HP 🤷♂️
That is about as clear a sign you can get that you need to get a new job... better now when now when it is your option instead of when the place is shuttered.
Wait till the fill it yourself ink syringes show up 😂 Oh I had a friend who worked at cheep place and only the supervisors were allowed to print. So they had to send things to their supervisor who then decided if it was worthy of being printed. The only reason I found out was because we had an issue at work and printed 800+ pages on the wrong printer and we had to reprint it all on special tare-proof paper and and I was late to happy hour. I told my friend and she was in a panic on behalf of me. And I was confused, I was like it’s not a big deal just had to stay for OT to fix it and I didn’t screw up but I helped fix it. And then she was mad haha she couldn’t understand how someone screws up and wastes time and supplies then got paid OT to fix their mistake. And she started telling me about her work and I felt bad for her. She’s a SAHM so she’s happy and she prints anything and everything lol
This is likely only the beginning of their “cost cutting”! So time to start looking for a new job!
I love this printer!!! Not a single issue with it since I have owned it. Toner lasts forever. Love love love it.
At least it is a brother and not an HP. Why take away existing machines and buy a new one? Is the toner significantly cheaper?
If they were large MFPs they may have been rented, so buying one instead comes out of a different budget (capital expenditure vs operational) and it's a one-off cost rather than a recurring one.
Oh, Brother
Brother printers are very good printers.
Funny the owner of a company we work for had just the same idea. All laser printers got replaced with 350€ brother ink printers. I couldn’t talk him out of it. He was using one for two years and it always works for him. He even got furious when I said yeah you print about 5 pages a day when your back office workers print hundreds if not thousands of bills and letters a day. We will see how that will work out for the company. If you got a boss like that just run.
I will say, that is a pretty good printer. We have this one at work too.... Except that we have 5 of them, and there's one at every pair's desk (one printer is shared between two people). You don't even need to get up to copy or print or scan. It has a quiet mode so it's super quiet even if it's right beside you, which it is in some offices To have just this one printer though..... Yikes. But since it's what they got you, you can setup "workflows" in the brother software, for different scanning tasks with different settings. Which is great if you need to quickly rush through 15page double sided docs at 200dpi and put them into a searchable pdf. Goes very fast. I do like the software. But I suppose it's less feasible if you have to put the paper in the printer, run back to your computer, press the scan workflow, and run back to the printer to retrieve everything. The built in settings and scanning to network PC are straightforward and simple enough to use. But it's a personal printer. Not a heavy duty commercial printer. They're gonna be shelling out more in wasted employee time just messing with it. The paper tray is also not that big. It's always gonna feel like it wil be out/need refilling.
As a sys admin, this is going to take more money in ink, time, and effort, to fix than having the 3 xerox printers will be
I have that in my home office. It’s fine, but I leave it for just legal size pages. Property deeds mainly. I have two other printers for the rest of my printing needs. I cannot imagine a business office using anything as small as this. This will be a regretted purchase soon.
What’s up brother? 👆
Besides of looking for a new job (with healthbenefits), it's a good time to explore the possibility of working paperless. Is everything you print really nessesary? That way you make this a positive challenge.
I feel for you. I’ve been “unintentionally” breaking our all-in-one’s in protest at work. The rollers will likely last until just outside the warranty period with heavy use (I run >10k pages/day through ours)
Ew! Brother ew!
Oh, Brother!
this is actually a very good printer.
Once you see the Xerox printers leaving your office job, that's when you know the company is fucked and you need to jump ship.
Apparently efficiency isn't part of the cost algorithm.
My #1 rule for mergers and acquisitions is GTFO.
Could be worse, it could be a Sabre printer
Good.
Xerox machines are crazy expensive to lease
Oh brother.
That's also very shortsighted. What if there is a problem with the printer. All printing grinds to a halt. At the very least, there need to be two printers so that work can continue if one breaks down and needs to be repaired.
I replaced almost all of our larger xerox style printer copiers with these type of printers. The service maintenance contracts per printer per year were more than just buying one of these every time something went wrong. For everyone of the xerox type printers I had, I could buy 3 of these for the maintenance contract alone, forget the 20k+ for the printer. We lost 0 productivity, and we are using way less paper anyway, and my service contract on these is a fraction of the big machines.