[ale] printer recommendation needed

[Boris Borisov]

My cheap combo HP scanner/printer seems to work out of box with most live
CD linux distros.

I just boot in Antix live CD and immediately can start scanning. Printer
takes little more setup thru CUPS.

On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, mute wonder via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Well, i have anti-recommendations.  In the last 3 years, we tried 2 wifi
> printers in my tiny, Windows/Linux/Android/iOS home.  It was a mess.  Kodak
> Verite 55W inkjet had problems being detected wirelessly by the Windows
> machines, but worked well enough on the Linux and iOS minus some formatting
> options.  It broke after month and was replaced by a Canon PIXMA MG3022
> inkjet.  Had to go to the manufacturer's website to download drivers and
> software for every operating system, but it worked most of the time after
> that.
>
> My advice is check for drivers FIRST.  Distro-included drivers for the
> Canon don't match my specific model, and absolutely necessitated going to
> manufacturer for some support; actually, i still can't get scanning to work
> on Xubuntu.
>
> My other printer experience is 10+ years out of date, but they were HP
> all-in-one inkjets that installed easily but broke after a few years, and
> one Lexmark or Brother inkjet that "just worked" beautifully.
>
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 8:43 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> I barely print anything except tax stuff anymore.
>>
>> Been using a $50 10+ yr old usb2 connected Samsung ML-1540 laser which has
>> native support in most distros.  It is point-n-click to setup the printer
>> on
>> other machines using the normal Gnome-Printing GUI, just pick ML-1740 as
>> the
>> driver.  CUPS provides an IPP network interface for the rest of the LAN.
>>
>> I also have a $50 10+ yr old usb2 connected Brother All-in-One MFC-240c
>> color
>> inkjet, but it was bought without any intention to ever add ink. It is an
>> automatic page scanner and fax machine in my world.  The scanning part
>> works
>> with gscan2pdf as the GUI. Scanning to any image format you want is
>> possible
>> too.  I can't remember how hard getting the scanning to work was. It was
>> a long
>> time ago, but Brother stuff isn't hard.
>> At this point, I'd probably just setup a KVM VM with USB passthru to run
>> purely
>> for scanning needs so I never need deal with that again in the next 30
>> yrs.
>>
>> If I needed color printing, I'd definitely get a color laser printer. I
>> would
>> avoid wifi and only use wired ethernet, if a networked printer is
>> mandatory.
>> IPP would be the protocol I wanted, but I haven't looked at other printer
>> protocols in at least 15 yrs.
>>
>> On 8/2/19 6:37 PM, jimbakerforlinux via Ale wrote:
>> > If you just need a simple 8.5x11 black and white -- The Samsung M2020W
>> is
>> > awesome, cheap, and a cross-platform laser. Windows yes, Linux yes,
>> Apple ...?
>> >
>> > On 7/30/19 11:53 AM, David Askew via Ale wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I’ve not had a printer in a long time, but my wife needs one. Anyone
>> recommend
>> >> printers that work cross platform and well? Windows, Mac and Linux
>> support all
>> >> needed.
>> >>
>> >> Any particular brands typically    work better than others?
>> >>
>> >> Is this stuff already documented somewhere?
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