Another another +1 here. Does that make it +3 now?
We don’t print a ton so we bought a basic monochrome Brother laser printer/scanner and used the included demo toner cartridge for almost two years. When that ran out, we swapped it for one big knockoff toner cartridge over four years ago and it’s still printing like a champ.
Pro tip: if a Brother printer says it’s out of toner, it’s only estimating this based on the number of pages printed. You can override it (at least in every model I’m familiar with) and keep on printing.
I’m guessing because he’s horribly incompetent. I did a cursory Google search and the press is not good. There’s even a change.org petition to get him to vacate his position.