<div dir="ltr"><div>Just remember that HP is prone to suddenly breaking their printers.<br><br><a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/24/hps-nonpology.html">http://boingboing.net/2017/01/24/hps-nonpology.html</a><br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:08 PM, jslozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Brother printers work will with Linux (I have one). If you are using<br>
Arch there are drivers in the repository (I think in the AUR). My<br>
printer's drivers were in the AUR.<br>
<br>
jsl<br>
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On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 07:57 -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:<br>
> Thanks. Well, my situation - officially my wife and I have retired<br>
> from our consulting business. Practically we will continue to<br>
> handle dribbles of client issues for several years and do a few hours<br>
> of work. And we have to do taxes. <br>
><br>
> We now have a collection of 6 printers in the house, including 1 all-<br>
> in-one, NONE of which work at present. (all have mysterious hardware<br>
> issues.) To replace the color toner cartridges in the Dell 3100-cn<br>
> and the drum which it just decided needed replacing is about $380. <br>
> And then it might, or might not, actually print. <br>
><br>
> We figure on needing to print perhaps 300-500 pages a year for the<br>
> next 5 years. Thus a single all-in-one which does good color<br>
> printing seems to make the most sense. With the new larger ink<br>
> capacity in the below units they both seem like they would provide 5-<br>
> 10 years of ink. The Brother is half the cost of the Epson and<br>
> provides 1/4 of the ink. We don't much care about speed. <br>
><br>
> Buying another laser seems like an unnecessary expense at this<br>
> point. <br>
><br>
> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 01:11 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote: <br>
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:20:33PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:<br>
> > > We are looking at either an Epson ET-4550 eco-tank printer or a<br>
> > Brother<br>
> > > MFC-J5830DW . <br>
> > > <br>
> > > My recollection is that the Brother drivers installed in Centos 6<br>
> > > without drama. It looks like the Epson has a generic driver for<br>
> > > linux. <br>
> ><br>
> > Brother lasers are drama-free. They Just Work. Epsons are a<br>
> > little <br>
> > more complicated though.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'd not consider an inkjet and a laser to be in the same class;<br>
> > what do <br>
> > you intend to use this printer for?<br>
> ><br>
> > - Solomon<br>
> <br>
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