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    Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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    [–] thefool 6 points 1 year ago

    We bought an HP laser printer a few years ago.. it drives me crazy in that when it goes to sleep mode, it never recovers, meaning you have to power cycle it to get it to respond again. Once it's power cycled, it's .. fine, although I curse it anyway since it's 2024 and how can they still make printers that still do this shit.

    Anyway.

    In Windows, on my wife's and kids' Windows PCs, it works most of the time but was a huge pain to set up with the stupid apps.

    On Android, it works most of the time after setting up stupid apps.

    On my Linux desktops, it worked perfectly out of the box on both of them. I couldn't believe it. One desktop is Manjaro and the other is Mint

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I actually have a brother inkjet printer which works reasonably well under Linux. Inkjet printers in general are troublesome, so there's a cap on how well they can work under any operating system.

    I could never figure out though how to receive faxes and the return receipts for sending them directly on the PC. There just seems to be a lack of modern, user friendly apps for this. I'm certain it's possible but the technical expertise is just beyond me.

    And yes, I still use fax when communicating with government agencies. My country is a backwater when it comes to digitalization and faxes provide legal certainty just like registered mail. But unlike registered mail they cost next to nill.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yeah, I've had printers with built-in fax before and those never worked right from PC (the fax part). I think the only time I had a working fax solution on my PC was a combo of one particular fax/modem card I had and whatever Windows Fax utility that came with windows 98. Other modems / software just didn't work at all.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I got a small xerox laser. It's fantastic. Works on everything I'm the house, including phones, tablets, windows and Linux. It's a bit more eh feature rich than I was expecting, but after tinkering in the settings I've not had to touch it in years.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Brother printers are great. Probably the only decent printer brand for home usage. My university has free printing, and those are Canon printers. They seem to work fine, so I guess the commercial market is a little different.

    Weirdly, my parents have this Samsung M2020W printer, and I gotta say, it's pretty neat. Takes any off-brand toner cartridge. They only need a cartridge every year or so. It's been 3+ years, but no problem so far. That might be an exceptional case, though.

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

    I used to have a Samsung laser for quite a few years. Went through maybe three toner cartridges. Eventually it started slipping and I didn't bother finding out if there's a repair available and bought a brother laser instead. Worked pretty great otherwise.

    Haven't tried toner transfer on this, but regular printouts are fine and it's much faster.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Sharp also make great commerical-grade printers that are 100% Linux compatible, we're using these at work: http://global.sharp/products/copier/products/bp_70c65/index.html

    They don't really make anything small enough to be a "home" model, this looks like their smallest printer: https://global.sharp/products/copier/products/mx_c358f/index.html (and that's around $1000, if you could even find someone to sell you one).

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's funny but i did find a brother laser printer in trash. It was working fine so i sold it since i already had a newer model.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    A brother laser printer a solid pick

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    I inherited an Canon Pixma MG3600 from a friend who got a new printer of her own, and it's been impressively stable for years now.

    A really solid printing experience on Linux; I'd say "plug and play" but I've got it set up for wireless printing and it worked immediately without plugging in!

    I've not tried the scanner on Linux but it worked on Mac out of the box without proprietary drivers so I can imagine the same for Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's not entirely true. I've been a Mac user since 1989 and I also recommend Brother laser printers

    [–] captain_aggravated 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I have an Epson inkjet that I'm not going to throw away yet. It's 6 years old though, not sure if they still make it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My gripe with inkjets, expensive / DRM'd cartridges aside, is the ink just dries up or gets used in maintenance cycles whether you print or not.

    Or is yours one of the tank models? I think those are less inefficient in that regard, right?

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

    As far as I know, the tank models are just as bad. They need to flush the system, which they do onto a sponge which when saturated means the printer is broken.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    HP: furiously taking notes

    [–] captain_aggravated 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Mine is a cartridge model, an XP-830 "Small-in-One" that gets used...maybe once a year. As I said I'm not throwing it away yet. Further info: I bought a tablet computer specifically so that I wouldn't have to print out my drawings for use in the wood shop, because I want to stop printing things entirely.

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

    Ah, the star trek method

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Weirdly I think I have one of the last half-decent HP all-in-one printers from about a decade and a half ago

    It takes third party ink and still more or less works as it did when I got it.

    I'll probably get a brother the day it finally dies though

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm kind of fond of my okidata c332dn. It's my daily driver.

    I have Brother multifunction printer. However, it's run out of toner, and I don't have the funds right now to purchase new cartridges.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Also true for windows!

    Brother printers are just that good.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My brother printer didn't have drivers for arch and it took me days, and the community to help me get it up and running.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean, I'm pretty happy with mine! 10/10 would recommend!

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