I had an HP Laserjet something (twenty years or so ago) that just kinda worked with CUPS on GNU/Linux -- but PS / PCL on those things was not complex, and it on

I had an HP Laserjet something (twenty years or so ago) that just kinda worked with CUPS on GNU/Linux -- but PS / PCL on those things was not complex, and it only had to print black anyway, with no network connectivity or scanning function. Around the time I was looking to replace it - about 8 years ago - with a colour laser, I'd assumed HP was still popular & 'Linux friendly', but it coincided with a horrendous HP laptop experience (of the 'I am never buying from this vendor again' variety). Forums seemed to have a fair flood of people dissatisfied with HP support on our favourite OS, too -- while Brother was getting very positive reviews, and linuxprinting/openprinting showed consistently good-to-great support across their range. I picked up a HL-3170CDW (colour laser) at around A$350 - which is comparable to the contemporary pricing for TFA's monochrome HP @ £220. I did a pass-me-down of that model a year or so ago, and went to the MFP version - DCP-L3510CDW (colour scanner, copier, laser printer) - for the same price. Print resolution is the same as TFA (600x600), but scan is at least 4x better. My only complaint is that they slightly changed their toner cartridge form between the models ... which felt like a very HP thing to do.