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After years of being a fool when it comes to home printing, I finally learned about the benefits of laser printing, and I will no longer be taken for a ride by inkjets! A little backstory: since my husband and I moved in together in 2009, we've had a rotating door of inkjet printers. We'd have one for a year or less, it would crap out or gunk up, and there'd be no saving it. We recycled probably three printers in the last 5 years alone. Not only was that an egregious waste of money but also an unnecessary tax on the environment. While researching laser printers for my boss, I found a great article about reasons to buy laser, and I was sold instantly. Here's a quick rundown about why I switched to laser and why I chose THIS printer: --Low cost to run. I'm an infrequent printer. Inkjets would dry out because we don't often print, but of course there are times that demand it--like tax season and receipts or tickets. It would drive my husband batty that he couldn't print when he needed, and printing at work was a pain and also not something I wanted to do. This machine prints a lot of pages for us even with the non-XL cartridge. --Toner doesn't dry out. You can sit with toner in its cartridge without clogging a printerhead like an inkjet. Your investment in your machine stays an investment because it lasts a much longer time. --Monochrome printing. For people like me who don't have much to print, monochrome is a great investment because you don't have to buy four different kinds of toner, and since we're just printing perfunctory stuff anyway, it's an ideal fit. --Clean text. Laser prints text much sharper than inkjet. For me, an amateur graphic designer, it's noticeable. Of course, I'm not printing anything graphic in nature because lasers generally do not print images cleanly like inkjets, but I like seeing how sharp even plain old receipts come out. --Speed. This thing blew ALL of our old inkjets away with the speed with which it prints. Holy cow, it spit out its inaugural test page before I could even pull the arm out to catch it. Inkjets had such long warm up and cool down times, which stinks if you're printing tickets or directions and trying to hurry out the door. Love it! --Scanner. Easy to scan from this machine, and the scans are clean and sharp. The flatbed works just fine. We're not big scanners, and I'm usually only scanning pictures anyway, so this model works great for us. --Wireless. We set this up in no time at all without connect a single wire to our PC. Just had to connect the machine to our Wifi, and it was done. For the price, this Brother, a name I already trusted from experience at the office, is unbeatable for our family use. I will still need to use a high quality printer when I do invitations, but I wasn't running those at home anyway, and printing pictures are just better to pay a few cents at a pharmacy to have them printed. So happy for this machine!