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The Printer That Simply Worked (media.mas.to)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a "put the logic in the Windoze driver" problem vs telling a good printer "Print this".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don't have to.

Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don't let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for "legit" ink refills.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially the ones that don't let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink,

They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With how expensive colour ink is, that's also stupid