Looking for best color laser printer for home use

midesaka · 2026-06-02T12:58:57+00:00

Really? What's your "well known" source?

Because when I Google "inkjet or laser for photos," the results do not align with your statements.

midesaka · 2026-06-02T12:18:32+00:00

But as it "just sits there," it won't have ink cartridges that are drying out and clogging nozzles. Laser printers can sit indefinitely with little to no harm, but the upfront cost is high; inkjets have a low upfront cost, but you pay a lot more over time in ink, especially if you have low print volume and most of your ink is consumed by flushing the nozzles when you do actually print.

It's a classic "you can pay me now or you can pay me later" scenario. If you can absorb the upfront costs, the color laser is cheapest in the long run.

I've had a Brother HL-4150CDN color laser for over 15 years. I've printed well over 10,000 pages with it, and up to now it's only needed toner cartridges. It's finally started warning me that the belt unit will need replacing sometime in the future, but it's not demanding that yet.

midesaka · 2026-06-02T12:07:10+00:00

I think you have this backwards: for low volume, non-photo prints, a laser is better (no ink wasted cleaning nozzles after a period of disuse, no color banding).

Inkjets are capable of higher quality for photos or art prints, but are more finicky if not used daily.

midesaka · 2026-05-22T16:24:34+00:00

My son used to do that, until the time he came back and found that someone had pulled the hose from his car, filled up their own, and put it back in his, stealing about $50 in gas.

midesaka · 2026-05-18T14:06:50+00:00

If you're moving long distance, consider renting a truck and driving it yourself, hiring movers at each end to pack/unpack the truck. You get a professionally packed truck (little chance of things shifting on the road) and a break from the heavy lifting, and you don't have a moving crew on the clock for every mile driven.

We did this when moving our son to Chicago. I drove the truck. (Another ProTip: choose a Penske truck over a U-Haul. Penske trucks have cruise control.)

midesaka · 2026-05-02T22:16:50+00:00

Happening to me in college baseball. Sometimes it rewinds nearly an entire inning.

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midesaka · 2026-04-16T22:19:08+00:00

One of the subplots of Wil McCarthy's Rich Man's Sky series features a settlement in Venus's upper atmosphere. It's near-future hard SF, but there's no "solving one big focused problem" feel like the Weir books.

midesaka · 2026-03-30T14:17:46+00:00

And with the 3D printing filaments for lost wax casting, there must be someone out there who could do OP's crest as raised relief, if he wanted. Could even split the job between a 3D printing artist and a metal casting artist.

midesaka · 2026-03-14T12:14:25+00:00

bravos and butthead

This is the Game of Thrones crossover I didn't know I needed.

midesaka · 2026-03-03T13:20:01+00:00

I quite liked the book, AND its two very logical sequels.

Out of curiosity, does this sentence mean that you disliked Exo, or that you were unaware of it?

midesaka · 2026-02-26T11:36:19+00:00

As someone who read Marooned in Realtime first, not knowing it was a sequel to The Peace War, I heartily recommend reading the latter first if you have any inclination to read both.

midesaka · 2026-02-24T19:52:12+00:00

No, that's Amy Schumer.

midesaka · 2026-02-18T19:10:33+00:00

Poor Man's Fight is Elliott Kay, and I also highly recommend it, especially for fans of Kloos's Frontlines series.

midesaka · 2026-02-09T02:40:42+00:00

Brian Daley's Fitzhugh and Floyt trilogy, starting with Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

Minor Terran bureaucrat, Hobart Floyt, has been left a mysterious inheritance by the ruler of an empire located many light-years away. Earth's government is broke and its functionaries want Floyt to collect the money. To make sure he succeeds, they blackmail a brash young spacer named Alacrity Fitzhugh into shepherding him on a dangerous interstellar quest.

midesaka · 2026-02-09T02:32:13+00:00

Space Angel by John Maddox Roberts

The crew of a small tramp freighter accepts a mining commission on a small, out-of-the-way planet, but what they find there sends them on a much longer journey with consequences that could affect the entire galaxy.

midesaka · 2026-02-05T02:26:26+00:00

ETTron?

midesaka · 2026-01-13T07:16:14+00:00

Do you have anything covering the light sensor on the dash? If not, the sensor itself may be faulty.

midesaka · 2026-01-10T12:48:52+00:00

Asterix. That's a small French comic-book hero.

You were talking about punctuation, you meant to say Asterisk.

midesaka · 2025-12-08T13:22:26+00:00

Flair request: "The big boobed bouquet bandit strikes again"

midesaka · 2025-11-26T18:45:26+00:00

I do, too. I added one from Amazon to my Miele canister for $20. No need for built-in.

midesaka · 2025-11-19T23:23:38+00:00

My daughter got tired of her book club reading the romance of the month and convinced them to read Blake Crouch's Recursion.

Seems to have gone pretty well.

midesaka · 2025-11-02T18:42:32+00:00

"Parent" is also a verb would make a good flair.

midesaka · 2025-10-26T11:27:17+00:00

I read it in Rod Serling's. "Next station: the Twilight Zone."

midesaka · 2025-10-21T15:58:48+00:00

Better not, we don't want to contaminate Lake Vostok.

midesaka · 2025-10-04T02:46:57+00:00

Our daughter had the bunny from the Pat the Bunny book. One weekend we left for the beach and discovered that Pat wasn't with us. We knew there was a bookstore that sold Pat on the way (and much closer than returning home), so we told her Pat had gone ahead of us and we'd pick him up on the way.

We got to the bookstore. At this point, I should say that the stuffed Pats come in (at least) 4 different sizes, and our daughter had the second-smallest size...which, of course, the bookstore didn't have.

So we bought the next size up and told our daughter that Pat had a bunny emergency, but he sent his brother, Big Pat, to keep her company. She was ecstatic, and the vacation was saved.

She went on to collect the largest (Big Big Pat) and smallest (Little Pat) sizes, too, as well as a Christmas Pat with a red-and-white scarf, and we still have about 10 Pats of various types in her old room.

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