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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

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I love a good, informative troll.

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    472·
    2 months ago

    There are very few printers that don’t work with Linux. Linux has drivers to interface with most of them through whatever means you like, right in the kernel.

    That’s one of the reasons my android phone (Linux kernel, remember) is better at finding and queuing up prints on a network printer than any windows machine I’ve ever used.

    I just hit share on a document, choose print… And then it just works.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      814·
      2 months ago

      There are very few printers that don’t work with Linux.

      I was speaking with the all-in-one types, that includes scanners and fax machines.

      Most printer companies don’t make their drivers work well with Linux (or at the very least used to not), and even Brother was in that same boat early on.

      But as of late they’re much better, so when you run a Brother installer for the drivers it just installs and works now, where in the past you had to worry about 32 bit versus 64 bit libraries in the OS and how they interact with the brother drivers, etc., etc.

      Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I have an MFC-9340 and have also run into this problem. The drivers available in cups allow me to either print two-sided in b&w, or print single-sided in color (at least for the drivers that work at all with the printer). I finally broke down and installed the binary from Brother to get it working fully, but it’s annoying that I can’t just use a generic driver with this printer.