Just ending a four year relationship with a Brother HL-5250DN. It was wonderful, but it's time for another $70 toner cartridge and even though the drum assembly shows 50% life, crappy toner cartridge construction has caused irreparable blotching on paper. The drum assembly is the price of a new printer.
I live in a monochrome printing world. I need fast, full-duplex printing and while the Brother printers have been remarkably reliable and affordable, their paper trays and feeding quite honestly, suck. Why give me a tray that will fit 2/3rds of a full ream of 20 lb. paper when really all it can work with is a hundred pages?
My choices are to get another Brother and run it hard for another 4 years and replace, or invest a little more for a long-term relationship. The reviews on comparable HPs have been rather tepid.
So Island brothers and sisters, please tell me what you use and what you like.