Yea, well, everything depends on what you do
The webUI is not that good I agree, but once you set it how often are you back in there to change stuff? Biggest sell for me was that I could buy it at Costco and return it if it was a POS.
Another Brother printer user here, I’d personally just get something like this and be done with it. If for some reason your install doesn’t just automatically detect + configure it (it should), they do have a Linux .deb package to do some troubleshooting.
Or I’ve bought Canon’s cheap color laser printers for the family and they’ve been quite nice too, I’m sure their B&W ones are alright.
I used to have a b&w laser Brother MFC, which worked well until it broke. Now, I have a color laser Canon MFC and functionally I am blown away at the improvement.
Be wary of the Canon toner tax. But IMHO you get what you pay for.
A lot of echo in this thread now
I would also like to point out that 90%+ of all “printer issue” threads are related to cheap GDI / host printers not working.
Just noticed this - can’t speak for the Canon printers I’ve worked with since they were installed over USB but my Brother MFP has been sitting in my basement on a shelf, gathering dust and powered on for literally the last two years (it auto-resumes to the last power state on power loss). Wireless printing meant connecting it to the Wifi network and everything on the network just auto-detects a network printer if you ask to add one, and it’s never dropped off the network a single time in the time I’ve owned it. Super convenient for home use, I don’t see any benefit to running a cable to it.
Maybe once a month I’ll print a form or something, walk down to check if the printer’s still alive, and the print will be sitting there waiting.
Except that they will slow down your network (11n at best) and many if not all cases not supporting WPA3?
This is why you have both a 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz radio on your home access point. Connecting a printer to your home WiFi is not an exotic task we’re talking about here.
I guess every wireless network device released more than three years ago is just unacceptable for home use now.
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