I'm a big fan of Brother printers. I've got a B&W multifunction one that's 10 years old with 50,000+ printed pages in still going strong. Our new color laser ha

I'm a big fan of Brother printers. I've got a B&W multifunction one that's 10 years old with 50,000+ printed pages in still going strong. Our new color laser has been nothing but a dream to work with too but it's only about a year old. If your printer is not waking up from deep sleep, I've found it due to poor multicast support on your network. I've had to debug various issues related to waking/discovery and once I resolved the multicast issues this problem went away. Specifically I ran into a UniFi bug with mesh networking and this problem is significantly exacerbated by poor mesh networking equipment. Brother printers rarely, if ever, need the full software suite and they indeed have a "driver-only" install available most of the time.