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I've had great experiences with Brother laser printers, until my color laser started refusing 3rd party cartridges. Someone else reported there was a firmware update that made that happen, Brother swears they didn't do anything.
For that reason, I would not buy a connected printer, ever. The setup I have now is a dumb printer connected to my local network using an RPi Zero W as print server. I would do it this way even if the printer had WiFi connectivity.
I've been using a black and white toner Brother printer I got in 2013 and it's still chugging along. My 3rd party toner cartridges also work well. Sucks your color ones aren't though.
Does it have WiFi though? Brother swears they didn't remove third party toner functionality, but they definitely installed new firmware without asking.
Mine does, yeah. Normally I wouldn't put it on the network, but I've just not had a decent place where I could plug it into my PC.
It could just be my model is old enough they don't bother trying to gimp it remotely? Who knows.
Came here to recommend Brother printers. They willingly accept non-Brother ink (at least my one does).
Mine did, too - until it didn't :-( But aside from that, it was an amazing color printer. HL- 4150CDN