On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 7:15 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 1/11/20 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > >> On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a > >>> while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are > >>> goog suggestions then? > >> > >> I'd say laser is the better option. For text, they usually print > >> better than inkjet do. And you don't get smudging with moisture like > >> ink does. > >> > >> Hewlett Packard printers are likely to work without you having to find > >> drivers for them. Other brands may only work with their own special > >> drivers, that they only bother to make for a few releases of Linux at > >> the time they released their printer. That's if they even make a Linux > >> driver. > > > > That's probably good general advice, but I'll just repeat that my all- > > in-one from Brother is just short of 6 years old and the proprietary > > driver still works with F31, both for scanning and printing. At the > > time it was markedly cheaper than the HP alternative, though that may > > or may not be the case now. > > I got a Brother color laser recently and it prints and scans great with > the driver from Brother. Before that I had an HP color laser that also > worked well. I too have a very old (I know I've had it since before 2014 but that is as far as I remember) Brother laser printer I paid $50 shipped new. I've never installed a proprietary driver for it to work with cups. I honestly do not know if I ever replaced the toner cartridge, but I print so little a ream of paper lasts years. Small guy and does not do scanning or duplex though, but never let me down. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
