3 ms·

Printers are fixed and work fine – as long as you buy a laser printer (not HP though!) with postscript support

by kuschku 5y ago

frosted-flakes 5y ago
HP laser printers are fine.
- User23 5y ago
  The Windows drivers are, to put it politely, absolute shit. They work well from MacOS and GNU/Linux though.
  - smackeyacky 5y ago
    To be a little fairer to HP, windows printing is an abomination. I have two HP printers that I did nothing to enable printing on the linux installations, they appear automatically and work out of the box. The windows machines? Expect to have to reinstall or reconfigure 6 monthly, and not just for HP.
dotancohen 5y ago
HP had been my go-to printers for the time I was still printing, maybe for a decade and a half starting around 2000. They "just work" on Linux systems with no driver downloads or other nonsense, including advanced non-printing features such as scanning. I'll admit that the build quality went down with every printer purchased, but that was an acceptable tradeoff for just plugging it in and getting to work. Not to mention that HP aftermarket ink is readily available and relatively affordable, especially if you simply refill the cartridges yourself (literally three minute job).
- kuschku 5y ago
  Personally I just use a brother DCP L3550cdw, I can print 3000 pages of color content for just 100 € in consumables, and it works just fine on any OS. Due to HP’s war on third-party ink and toner, I just can’t recommend them.
  - dotancohen 5y ago
    Good to know if I ever need another printer, thanks.
  - egiboy 5y ago
    +1 for Brother laser printers. I have the MFC-L3710CW model and cannot recommend it enough.
    - kuschku 5y ago
      I bought third-party toner that came with a faulty chip, transplanted an original brother chip to it, and used the reset menu (open the printer to gain toner access, hold ← and X for 2 seconds, press ←, select which toner chip to reset as if it was full) and now it's working fine :)
  - kuschku 5y ago
    On that topic, I accidentally just bought b/w toner for 18k pages for 70 € yesterday (I thought it was for 6k pages). https://www.ebay.de/itm/194967229480 https://www.ebay.de/itm/194967229480

Printers are fixed and work fine – as long as you buy a laser printer (not HP though!) with postscript support

frosted-flakes 5y ago

HP laser printers are fine.

User23 5y ago
The Windows drivers are, to put it politely, absolute shit. They work well from MacOS and GNU/Linux though.
- smackeyacky 5y ago
  To be a little fairer to HP, windows printing is an abomination. I have two HP printers that I did nothing to enable printing on the linux installations, they appear automatically and work out of the box. The windows machines? Expect to have to reinstall or reconfigure 6 monthly, and not just for HP.

dotancohen 5y ago

HP had been my go-to printers for the time I was still printing, maybe for a decade and a half starting around 2000. They "just work" on Linux systems with no driver downloads or other nonsense, including advanced non-printing features such as scanning. I'll admit that the build quality went down with every printer purchased, but that was an acceptable tradeoff for just plugging it in and getting to work. Not to mention that HP aftermarket ink is readily available and relatively affordable, especially if you simply refill the cartridges yourself (literally three minute job).

kuschku 5y ago
Personally I just use a brother DCP L3550cdw, I can print 3000 pages of color content for just 100 € in consumables, and it works just fine on any OS. Due to HP’s war on third-party ink and toner, I just can’t recommend them.
- dotancohen 5y ago
  Good to know if I ever need another printer, thanks.
- egiboy 5y ago
  +1 for Brother laser printers. I have the MFC-L3710CW model and cannot recommend it enough.
  - kuschku 5y ago
    I bought third-party toner that came with a faulty chip, transplanted an original brother chip to it, and used the reset menu (open the printer to gain toner access, hold ← and X for 2 seconds, press ←, select which toner chip to reset as if it was full) and now it's working fine :)
- kuschku 5y ago
  On that topic, I accidentally just bought b/w toner for 18k pages for 70 € yesterday (I thought it was for 6k pages). https://www.ebay.de/itm/194967229480 https://www.ebay.de/itm/194967229480