BTW, I’ve had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
Brother laser printers are good for everyone, not just Linux users.
Helped my gfs mom troubleshoot her HP printer (I know, ew. She bought it before we met) and finally figured out from the stupid app that it was out of one color.
The app doesnt indicate this in words though, Oh no. Just a stupid infographic that doesnt say ANYTHING. Just shows a nondescript bar at the top.
Only reason I downloaded it was i thought it would be a bit more user friendly.
Long story short I recommended a brother laser printer because the last time I replaced a cartridge in it was a couple years back and that was after printing things for god knows how long. And mine is old af.
can you recommend a good printer ?
Get a brother laser. 👨
can you tell me how to kill a High Ganzonian ?
Get a laser, brother. 👽
I would take any laser printer with a scanner/copier that doesn’t have a subscription model that has Linux drivers for all features .
Brother is the only one I’ve found to check all the boxes
My only gripe with it was the scan drivers were not easy to configure to enable network scanning.
Once I figured that out, I made a SANE scan server that has the drivers, and I just point all my devices to that (SANE to SANE) and don’t even need to install the actual scanner drivers. It’s damn amazing.
Once I figured that out, I made a SANE scan server that has the drivers, and I just point all my devices to that (SANE to SANE) and don’t even need to install the actual scanner drivers. It’s damn amazing.
Could you point me towards instructions on how to do that?
Pretty sure I just followed this:
Thank you!
Maybe it depends on the model? I just set it up on one a laptop a couple weeks ago and it only took like 10 minutes.
I guess it was easy, just not well documented (at the time, anyway).
Oh, the software is actually called SANE. I thought you were just making clear how bad Brother’s drivers were.
Oh, yeah. lol. It’s the Linux scanner framework. It has a network protocol that will talk to other SANE services and allow scanners to be shared.
My scan programs all go through SANE, so you don’t need the Brother drivers on each PC you want to scan from (just the machine that is interfacing with the scanner; in my case, it’s a Docker container on my server).
Learning I could do that was pretty life changing. lol
Did the same thing for mine. I’ve got one with ADF scanning, but it’s only one-sided. So I simply wrote some script on my scan server that merges the current scan with the last scan if they have the same amount of pages and now I can easily scan stacks of paper with both sides. After that it goes through some compression and off to my NAS. Ah, love my pipeline, so glad how simple the printer’s Linux drivers made it.
That’s awesome! I’d love to expand mine to do more like that, but the model I have doesn’t have the ADF so it’s kind of pointless.
Maybe a regional market quality thing, but mine fucked up it’s cartridge pretty soon and has a long procedure of changing them, not plug and print like in older models. Sometimes it happens. Jusging by youtube videos it seems some models are just rare unlucky picks.
Tbh, get a Brother printer for any OS. At least they don’t buy into the shitfuckery that HP and others do with ink and firmware updates.
They are starting to now.
I been through about 10 TN-450 cartridges in my Brother printer and can count on one hand how many jams I’ve had. And I’m pretty sure they were all because my kid would take paper out and leave a page sitting crooked in the tray.
Recently had to replace the drum.
Ha, nice. My one and only jam was because I completely failed at life trying to load an envelope.
Mines just been sitting in my closet hooked up for like 10 years now, she works whenever I need her.
That said, we really need to keep printing paper hard copies of important stuff. Like, why do archival projects not charge non-personal (business & government) users a subscription fee for access and provide free personal use to library card holders?
Looked down at my printer and realized it was a Brother. Didn’t have to do anything special, it just worked.
Brother Laser
My brother printer didn’t have drivers for arch and it took me days, and the community to help me get it up and running.
Put your model # in the search box on the AUR and you’ll get the driver every time.
Didn’t work. Searched and searched, but no luck. Anyways, I got it now, so no need.
I used mine with the old, reliable “HP LaserJet 4200 PS” driver for the first year or two. I only installed the official drivers because I wanted the duplexing to work. lol
With a laser printer, the HP LJ 4200 driver is pretty much universal (have only seem a very few cases where it didn’t work)
dot matrix printer or nothing at all
I can still hear them.
And it was also cool that when it seemed like it was out of ink, you could pop open the cartridge, spray the ribbon with WD-40, and get another 200-300 pages out of it.
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Teletype or bust!
I remember trying to print HUGE gamefaqs guides on my dot matrix printer back in the day. Thing literally ran for over 24 hours to print some of the larger ones.
and printing out the long banners in the banner programs :)
Oh, and cool crab. cant forget cool crab
My black and white Brother laser printer is 16 years old and still printing almost every day.
Greatest article ever: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
Legit solid printer. Would highly recommend
It’s funny but i did find a brother laser printer in trash. It was working fine so i sold it since i already had a newer model.
Someone actually commented that in another post the other day (may have even been you lol). I absolutely had that comment in mind when I used it as a caption 😆
This post is a reminder that I might have to take another look at used printers for sale, get something that won’t suck whenever I need to print RPG character sheets and other stuff for tabletop gaming
