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I have a Samsung printer, but support for that also switched to HP a number of years ago. I would really like to know if there's a good printer manufacturer th
by mcv 5y ago
I have a Samsung printer, but support for that also switched to HP a number of years ago.
I would really like to know if there's a good printer manufacturer that makes simple, high quality printers that just work, don't require all these needless hoops, and respect the customer. Sounds like there should be a market for that, and yet somehow all printer manufacturers seem to suck.
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- tpxl 5y agoIsn't brother in that ballpark?
- pnutjam 5y agoYeah, brother is my go to now. Laser b/w for less then $150. I have a color 4040 that I got a great deal on.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoI have a $100 brother laser printer, and it's not too bad. It took me a while to get it working on arch Linux reliably over wifi, but that was more of an arch issue.
- mcv 5y agoWell, my Samsung doesn't work reliably over wifi from Windows and Mac, so this issue is hardly limited to Brother and Arch.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoSpecifically, arch wasn't running any zero-conf services out of the box. CUPS would auto-detect the printer just fine, but then try to connect to it via an mDNS hostname, and the connection would fail. Once I figured that out and got mDNS working, it's been reliable. A lot of wifi problems are due to bad/flaky access point hardware. Notably, a lot of the internet recommended "good" consumer wifi gear actually sucks from a reliability point of view. It took me months to get my home setup reliable enough to take it for granted.
- mcv 5y agoBrother is pretty much the only printer brand I hear good stuff about anymore. I have no experience with them yet, but when I get sick of my Samsung, I'll probably check out Brother.
- hitpointdrew 5y agoBrother or Kyocera