One of the best purchases I have ever made is my Brother laser jet. I’m still on my first toner cartridge after three years. It works every time and never complains or updates.
(not OP, but another Brother fan) I've bought two Brother multifunction monochrome lasers, both are still running fine.
I have the Brother MFC-L5800DW and it's predecessor (~$450). Both are amazing.
I stepped up to this price range because models at this price point have a USB slot in front so you can directly scan to a thumb drive, or print from a thumb drive.
Both have an extremely powerful scanning function e.g., scan to an SMTP server, local FTP server etc etc.
These are the Dewalt of printers e.g., full native Postscript, native LPR daemon the device etc.
