Printer recommendations (Linux)

Yea, well, everything depends on what you do :man_shrugging:

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.

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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.

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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.

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A lot of echo in this thread now :wink:

I would also like to point out that 90%+ of all “printer issue” threads are related to cheap GDI / host printers not working.

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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.

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Except that they will slow down your network (11n at best) and many if not all cases not supporting WPA3?

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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.

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I guess every wireless network device released more than three years ago is just unacceptable for home use now.

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