Super-thin PCB stops the cartridge from counting how many pages you've printed.
The 'best printer' category winner every year is whatever Brother laser printer is on sale during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.
I have an 8+ year old colour Brother laser printer still going strong. Only had to replace the black cartridge for the first time the other week, colors all still going strong!
I can leave it unused for months & then just fire it up & print 100 pages with no problems whatsoever.
Wish I had it back in college/uni days when I had no end of problems with various crappy ink jet printers, even smashed one up I got so pissed off with it mucking me about back in the day.
Saying that, I think I’ve seen comments by others saying newer Brother laser jets aren’t as good?
I bypassed their DRM ink cartridges years ago by buying literally anything other than an HP