Re: OT: ink jet printers

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On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 22:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on
> > Fedora.
> > 
> > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on
> > Fedora, from
> > Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer
> > all
> > that much, and every single one of them eventually (after I've had
> > it
> > for a
> > few months) develops a head clog that is so bad that not even the
> > printer's
> > cleaning cycle can fix it. I have tried some of the cleaning kits
> > with not
> > much success (I'm a lousy handyman), and even if I could get the
> > cleaning
> > kits to work, I'd rather find a printer where I can avoid this
> > headache.
> > 
> > So, is there any such thing as an all-in-one ink jet printer that
> > does not
> > suffer from this problem if it is not used regularly? Question #2
> > is,
> > are
> > any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all
> > functions) with
> > Fedora Linux?
> 
> I have a wireless Brother laser all-in-one that I use on a daily
> basis
> and has been working since 2014 on Fedora. You just download a
> tarfile
> from their support page and run it to set the thing up. Both scanner
> and printer work.

Further to the above, if you don´t actually require colour printing
(and almost no-one really does) there is no upside to getting an ink-
jet printer. Monochrome lasers are more reliable and cheaper in the
long run. 

poc
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