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My recommendation: Buy a Brother Laser Printer and get a scanning app (e.g., ScannerPro or similiar) and forget about all your problems.

MarkusWandel 3y ago
Second that. I have an absolutely antique Brother MFC. It prints, scans, photocopies, and it has a $20 generic toner cartridge in it that gives perfectly good print quality. The only downside is having install a 32-bit binary driver to make it work in Linux, with an extra hoop to jump through - scanning won't work until you manually install another missing 32-bit dependency. But once that's done it works. For years. It's enough to make one not hate printing at home.
- MarkusWandel 3y ago
  And with gscan2pdf - not hate scanning too!
Androider 3y ago
Little known fact, but you can scan using macOS's Preview. Just do File->Import from Scanner. Scans from my Brother something-or-other with no apps or drivers whatsoever directly to PDF, over Wi-Fi. Perfect.
- vlozko 3y ago
  TIL. I’ve always used the included Image Capture app for all my scans.
- nfriedly 3y ago
  MacOS also has an Image Capture app that's explicitly made for scanning. The only real problem I have with it is that it wants to do a preview scan first if you used the scanner bed last (as opposed to the document feeder) and it freezes it's interface while that's happening.
bmitc 3y ago
I honestly hate dealing with the scanning apps. They're ok, but they're not cheap and require a subscription. I've been looking to replace them with an actual scanner.
- artificial 3y ago
  Scope out Microsoft Lens (app)
- cagey 3y ago
  Genius Scan Enterprise is a non-subscription "pay-up-front" scanning app that I've used (on Android) for at least 3 years with complete satisfaction. Current price 25USD but I recall paying noticeably less (I share the app with other users in my family to defray the cost). I previously owned a Fujitsu fi-5110EOX sheet-feed scanner that I thought was the pinnacle of scanning goodness, but when it died after 15 years, Genius Scan proved a more than sufficient replacement for me[1], such that I returned the new Fujitsu sheet-feed scanner I'd bought to replace it for a refund. I have no affiliation with any of the products I've mentioned above, just a user. [0] https://thegrizzlylabs.com/enterprise/ https://thegrizzlylabs.com/enterprise/ [1] NB: my use case does not involve a significant amount of scanning high page count documents.
- xp84 3y ago
  Why not just use the OneDrive app? I just scan directly in that app.

MarkusWandel 3y ago

Second that. I have an absolutely antique Brother MFC. It prints, scans, photocopies, and it has a $20 generic toner cartridge in it that gives perfectly good print quality. The only downside is having install a 32-bit binary driver to make it work in Linux, with an extra hoop to jump through - scanning won't work until you manually install another missing 32-bit dependency. But once that's done it works. For years. It's enough to make one not hate printing at home.

MarkusWandel 3y ago
And with gscan2pdf - not hate scanning too!

Androider 3y ago

Little known fact, but you can scan using macOS's Preview. Just do File->Import from Scanner. Scans from my Brother something-or-other with no apps or drivers whatsoever directly to PDF, over Wi-Fi. Perfect.

vlozko 3y ago
TIL. I’ve always used the included Image Capture app for all my scans.
nfriedly 3y ago
MacOS also has an Image Capture app that's explicitly made for scanning. The only real problem I have with it is that it wants to do a preview scan first if you used the scanner bed last (as opposed to the document feeder) and it freezes it's interface while that's happening.

bmitc 3y ago

I honestly hate dealing with the scanning apps. They're ok, but they're not cheap and require a subscription. I've been looking to replace them with an actual scanner.

artificial 3y ago
Scope out Microsoft Lens (app)
cagey 3y ago
Genius Scan Enterprise is a non-subscription "pay-up-front" scanning app that I've used (on Android) for at least 3 years with complete satisfaction. Current price 25USD but I recall paying noticeably less (I share the app with other users in my family to defray the cost). I previously owned a Fujitsu fi-5110EOX sheet-feed scanner that I thought was the pinnacle of scanning goodness, but when it died after 15 years, Genius Scan proved a more than sufficient replacement for me[1], such that I returned the new Fujitsu sheet-feed scanner I'd bought to replace it for a refund. I have no affiliation with any of the products I've mentioned above, just a user. [0] https://thegrizzlylabs.com/enterprise/ https://thegrizzlylabs.com/enterprise/ [1] NB: my use case does not involve a significant amount of scanning high page count documents.
xp84 3y ago
Why not just use the OneDrive app? I just scan directly in that app.