Looking for a new printer. My new HP Inkjet is a piece of fucking garbage and I’m going to smash it to pieces in my driveway.
Looking for something with good Linux support, and as little proprietary online HP-type bullshit as possible. Also, should I get a laser printer?
I got an Epson ecotank printer. It doesn’t work out of the box with Linux, but there are drivers and it does the job. Otherwise it’s been pretty dependable.
Brother laser printers. Never buy a consumer inkjet. especially from HP.
I’ve had a Brother HL2130 B/W laser for as long as I can remember, perfect ! 😊
I bougth the hl 5240 around ten years ago and still use the same drum. I buy ink powder every couple of years on eBay to refill it.
It will refuse to print every couple of thousand pages to force you to replace the drum, but that is just a kind of planned obsolecsence in form of an internal timer. I think some sort of thus shit will happen on every printer nowadays. It’s only purpose is to create a hole in your pocket and produces a lot of plastic waste.
I found a kind of konami code you can enter for this model to reset the drum counter on the interweb, though, so its not an issue for this model.
So before you buy check if such a code exists for the model you have chosen, before buying one that will waste your yltime and money.
Power off; open front cover; hold go button while powering on until only 3 lights are lit (it should take around 15 sec.); press go 2 times; wait 20-30 seconds then press go five times; close front cover.
I upgraded my 10 year old brother bw laser to color a few years ago and gave the old one to a friend
My Canon laser printer works fine on Linux. I have had trouble setting up custom paper size, but I have made it work. Unfortunately, I distro hop a lot, and feel too lazy to try setting it up again.
