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Isn't brother in that ballpark?

• pnutjam 5y ago
  Yeah, 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    Well, my Samsung doesn't work reliably over wifi from Windows and Mac, so this issue is hardly limited to Brother and Arch.
    • sgtnoodle 5y ago
      Specifically, 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 ago
  Brother 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.