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 @ifixcoinops Brother was always good, always worked cross platform, and wasn't super expensive. Lexmark was a nightmare of windows only drivers. Canon used to be good too, but I haven't checked on them in a while. Epson tried to be good, but failed at it. HP just sold out their souls. So yeah, basic cheap laser brother is my go to. 6 comments
I have a Canon Pixma MG3650 for photos (shitty WiFi, but cheap and ok with USB on Windows) and a Canon Maxify MB5150 (mostly because of the scanner for my DMS and the Ethernet). @Starkimarm @ifixcoinops I've never had an issue with Canon even used many of them for a decade long ago. Just don't have any recent experience with them. I'd probably go with Brother or Canon if I had to buy something today.  @matoakit @ifixcoinops I bought my Lexmark laser printer and ran it fine with Linux. Though, I did buy a network-attached one. It was possibly the best and longest lasting printer I ever bought. I wouldn't be all that surprised if it was still running. @xinit @ifixcoinops Sounds like they're better than when I used them. Though I didn't have networked units at the time, it was just consumer desktop models, and we used linux and macs and even CUPS wouldn't print to them. @matoakit @ifixcoinops Oh, newer models are surely crap by now. I think I bought mine in 199X and it was a business-targeted one (as nobody had wired networks at home, right?) Having a built-in print server in the printer was helpful. |
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@matoakit @ifixcoinops we've a canon b/w laser printer that we got 9 years ago and it works great. We're not heavy users, though.