[geeks] Printer Recommendations

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Ross Lonstein wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 03:21:48PM -0600, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
>> I have an HP LaserJet 4050dtn that's been absolutely wonderful for many
>    [snip]
>> whatever moderately robust thing Brother makes these days and continue
>> to take my large-format jobs to the FedEx store.
>
> First, second, and third choice: Brother. I'm on the third unit since
> replacing my LJ4+ many years ago (one got water damage so not an
> ordinary failure).
>
> They're not quite as robust as the old HP's but they print as expected
> with (tested) Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOSX, and Android.
>
> I have a MFC-L5900W and network scanning works on Linux (sane) and
> MacOSX. I haven't tried Windows scanning but expect it works too.

I agree on this.  We have two Brother printers at home.  I have the
MFC-L3710CW in my office, color laser.

We got my wife the MFC-J6945DW ink-jet, because it will do ledger-sized
printing & scanning (she's an Interior Designer, has to print out
blueprints).  When she needs bigger than that, she'll send it off to a
print-shop, but this guy does a lot of the work.  If I could have found
a ledger-sized color laser, heck, even a b&w laser that was priced for
home users and not pro print shops, I would have gotten that instead,
but we've not had any of the regular ink-jet problems (clogged nozzles,
etc).  I've not paid attention to the ink costs, my wife takes care of
her own stuff.

I can scan from either of them using sane, or if you set it up via the
web interface on the printer, you can scan from the scanner to a SMB
share (there are other network targets, but SMB is the only one that
lets me drop files onto my Linux box).

I was using Samsung black & white MFC printers for a long time, but
Samsung sold their printers off to HP.  HP today is not the HP they used
to be.

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX