I've got multiple pieces of Brother equipment, all of it has been well behaved and the consumables costs are reasonable.

Inkjets are good if you use them frequently but they tend to dry out if you don't--a decent inkjet will expend some ink into an internal tank to avoid drying out but this makes them a very bad deal for light printing. Inkjets are still superior for photo printing and they can print onto things that lasers can't but otherwise I wouldn't consider them these days.

HP used to be very good, albeit pricey, gear. These days I say HP stands for Huge Problem. My last personal experience with HP gear was a printer that used the system CPU to do much of the workload--and had buggy drivers. If anything went wrong with the printout you had to reboot the computer to get your printer back. That was the last straw for my employer at the time but since then I've heard plenty of gripes about HP, I see no reason to think they've shaped up since.