THINGS THAT DON’T SUCK: So I bought this Brother wireless laser printer for a cheap price — $129.99 — and set it up last weekend. My HP wireless inkjet still works, but I hate to print long documents through it and since I increasingly print from laptops I wanted another wireless printer. Setup was fairly easy — because there’s no screen or keyboard on the HP, that involves hooking it up to the router to run the setup routine — and it’s worked perfectly ever since. I doubt I’ll ever have a printer as good as my HP LaserJet 4L, which still works after 15 years, but this seems quite satisfactory and was cheap.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Nolan writes:

I have this one and like you have had a very good experience, which surprised me because it was pretty inexpensive for the features included and the cost per sheet is really competitive as well. Like in the camera market (lovin my canon 5D MkII) competition is a good thing… if only government… whatever.

Yeah, if only.