On 14 September 2011 at 18:35, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That said. Is there no-one who will rid the world of printers > that suck, and whose cartridges cost more than the printer? > > (Also, works with CUPS on Linux, in such a way that it actually > presents useful ERROR MESSAGES, instead of just unhelpfully > blinking a light over and over with no details as to what > exactly is wrong?) > > I figured I'd ask this group. I had the same issue. About 6 months ago I got a Brother MFC-8480DN from Costco. The toner cartridge it comes with is supposed to be good for 50k pages. The unit prints in b/w but scans in color. Scanning works with [X]SANE. Scanning works over Ethernet. Printing can work over Ethernet or parallel port and I think USB too. It's also a fine copier and fax machine. I grabbed the easy to find Brother drives free from their site. They installed just fine. These are brmfcfaxcups, brscan-skey, and brscan3. All that cooperates just fine with CUPS. I can't tell you about error message usefulness as I've never had one. I have two friends who got the color version of this unit. Neither one survived a full year, only about 11 months. Another friend of mine has a unit like mine, but older, that's never had any trouble in the years he's had it. G'luck.... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
