[ale] Epson ET-4550 Printer Drivers on Linux?

[jslozier]

Brother printers work will with Linux (I have one). If you are using
Arch there are drivers in the repository (I think in the AUR). My
printer's drivers were in the AUR.

jsl

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 07:57 -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Thanks.  Well, my situation - officially my wife and I have retired
> from our consulting business.   Practically we will continue to
> handle dribbles of client issues for several years and do a few hours
> of work.   And we have to do taxes. 
> 
> We now have a collection of 6 printers in the house, including 1 all-
> in-one, NONE of which work at present.  (all have mysterious hardware
> issues.)  To replace the color toner cartridges in the Dell 3100-cn
> and the drum which it just decided needed replacing is about $380. 
> And then it might, or might not, actually print.    
> 
> We figure on needing to print perhaps 300-500 pages a year for the
> next 5 years.   Thus a single all-in-one which does good color
> printing seems to make the most sense.   With the new larger ink
> capacity in the below units they both seem like they would provide 5-
> 10 years of ink.   The Brother is half the cost of the Epson and
> provides 1/4 of the ink.    We don't much care about speed. 
> 
> Buying another laser seems like an unnecessary expense at this
> point. 
> 
> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 01:11 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote: 
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:20:33PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > > We are looking at either an Epson ET-4550 eco-tank printer or a
> > Brother
> > > MFC-J5830DW . 
> > > 
> > > My recollection is that the Brother drivers installed in Centos 6
> > > without drama.   It looks like the Epson has a generic driver for
> > > linux.  
> > 
> > Brother lasers are drama-free.  They Just Work.  Epsons are a
> > little 
> > more complicated though.
> > 
> > I'd not consider an inkjet and a laser to be in the same class;
> > what do 
> > you intend to use this printer for?
> > 
> >  - Solomon
>  
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