If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
TIA,
Jay
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:44 PM Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
odd, I've had very good luck with Brother B&W laser printers. Supplies are far cheaper than HP or whatever, my MFC-8810DW sits on my LAN (via ethernet although it has wifi too) and lets everything in the house print to it, and it can scan to a SMB file server without needing any special software, just push a few buttons on the printer, it scans either flatbed or sheet fed (single or double sided) and a PDF appears on the file share a few seconds later. Brother supports both LPR and CUPS.
On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
I can't speak to the sewing machines, but I have to say that I've had very good luck with Brother printers. However, we have to be honest and acknowledge that I'm talking about LASER printers, not the $%^&* inkjet silliness.
In my DEFINITELY not-so-humble opinion, the "run away as fast as you can" advice applies to ALL inkjets that are intended for home use.
The only real differences I'm aware of between Brother and HP LASER printers are price, and the fact that the HP drivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers. I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to.
As always, YMMV.
Our office has had a Brother MFC-8510DN for at least five years - no issues. As has been said below, you do have to download and install the driver but the process hasn't been problematic. Having said that, I haven't pushed the limit on it's capabilities, just done rather plain printing.
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On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
I can't speak to the sewing machines, but I have to say that I've had very good luck with Brother printers. However, we have to be honest and acknowledge that I'm talking about LASER printers, not the $%^&* inkjet silliness.
In my DEFINITELY not-so-humble opinion, the "run away as fast as you can" advice applies to ALL inkjets that are intended for home use.
The only real differences I'm aware of between Brother and HP LASER printers are price, and the fact that the HP drivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers. I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to.
As always, YMMV.
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We currently have a Brother MFC-5490CN. Printer firmware is dated June 1010. (yeah, 10 years old). Few years ago the brother software wouldn't work for printing under Fedora. No problem, can print under Windows 10. Then it stopped scanning. Could still print...under Windows.
Now, to fix the scanning features working I installed updated drivers under Windows, now it scans like champ, but won't print, at all.
Time to go!!!
Hence my question...
Jay
Our office has had a Brother MFC-8510DN for at least five years - no issues. As has been said below, you do have to download and install the driver but the process hasn't been problematic. Having said that, I haven't pushed the limit on it's capabilities, just done rather plain printing.
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On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
I can't speak to the sewing machines, but I have to say that I've had very good luck with Brother printers. However, we have to be honest and acknowledge that I'm talking about LASER printers, not the $%^&* inkjet silliness.
In my DEFINITELY not-so-humble opinion, the "run away as fast as you can" advice applies to ALL inkjets that are intended for home use.
The only real differences I'm aware of between Brother and HP LASER printers are price, and the fact that the HP drivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers. I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to.
As always, YMMV.
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On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 18:17 -0400, Jay Hart wrote:
We currently have a Brother MFC-5490CN. Printer firmware is dated June 1010. (yeah, 10 years old). Few years ago the brother software wouldn't work for printing under Fedora. No problem, can print under Windows 10. Then it stopped scanning. Could still print...under Windows.
Now, to fix the scanning features working I installed updated drivers under Windows, now it scans like champ, but won't print, at all.
Time to go!!!
I'd say that 10 years is a decent run for a printer, depending on usage.
If you want to stick with Brother, check out the Staples Web site and look at the refurb page. I've gotten some good deals there.
Hence my question...
Jay
Our office has had a Brother MFC-8510DN for at least five years - no issues. As has been said below, you do have to download and install the driver but the process hasn't been problematic. Having said that, I haven't pushed the limit on it's capabilities, just done rather plain printing.
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On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
I can't speak to the sewing machines, but I have to say that I've had very good luck with Brother printers. However, we have to be honest and acknowledge that I'm talking about LASER printers, not the $%^&* inkjet silliness.
In my DEFINITELY not-so-humble opinion, the "run away as fast as you can" advice applies to ALL inkjets that are intended for home use.
The only real differences I'm aware of between Brother and HP LASER printers are price, and the fact that the HP drivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers. I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to.
As always, YMMV.
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On 6/27/20 5:26 PM, Ron Loftin wrote:
On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 18:17 -0400, Jay Hart wrote:
We currently have a Brother MFC-5490CN. Printer firmware is dated June 1010. (yeah, 10 years old). Few years ago the brother software wouldn't work for printing under Fedora. No problem, can print under Windows 10. Then it stopped scanning. Could still print...under Windows.
Now, to fix the scanning features working I installed updated drivers under Windows, now it scans like champ, but won't print, at all.
Time to go!!!
I'd say that 10 years is a decent run for a printer, depending on usage.
If you want to stick with Brother, check out the Staples Web site and look at the refurb page. I've gotten some good deals there.
I would recommend HP LaserJet printers. Have no experience with ink printers. I would recommend to make sure that you get postscript printer. Then you will be OK on Linux and UNIX (CUPS will be your friend).
I have no experience with low end printers. I was hesitant recently, and could not throw away HP LaserJet 4050, which was purchased 18 years ago, was getting really tough beating being used in the Department I support, and still works.
Valeri
Hence my question...
Jay
Our office has had a Brother MFC-8510DN for at least five years - no issues. As has been said below, you do have to download and install the driver but the process hasn't been problematic. Having said that, I haven't pushed the limit on it's capabilities, just done rather plain printing.
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On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
I can't speak to the sewing machines, but I have to say that I've had very good luck with Brother printers. However, we have to be honest and acknowledge that I'm talking about LASER printers, not the $%^&* inkjet silliness.
In my DEFINITELY not-so-humble opinion, the "run away as fast as you can" advice applies to ALL inkjets that are intended for home use.
The only real differences I'm aware of between Brother and HP LASER printers are price, and the fact that the HP drivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers. I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to.
As always, YMMV.
-- Ron Loftin reloftin@twcny.rr.com
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At Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:09:47 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 6/27/20 5:26 PM, Ron Loftin wrote:
On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 18:17 -0400, Jay Hart wrote:
We currently have a Brother MFC-5490CN. Printer firmware is dated June 1010. (yeah, 10 years old).  Few years ago the brother software wouldn't work for printing under Fedora.  No problem, can print under Windows 10.  Then it stopped scanning.  Could still print...under Windows.
Now, to fix the scanning features working I installed updated drivers under Windows, now it scans like champ, but won't print, at all.
Time to go!!!
I'd say that 10 years is a decent run for a printer, depending on usage.
If you want to stick with Brother, check out the Staples Web site and look at the refurb page. Â I've gotten some good deals there.
I would recommend HP LaserJet printers. Have no experience with ink printers. I would recommend to make sure that you get postscript printer. Then you will be OK on Linux and UNIX (CUPS will be your friend).
I have no experience with low end printers. I was hesitant recently, and could not throw away HP LaserJet 4050, which was purchased 18 years ago, was getting really tough beating being used in the Department I support, and still works.
HP *used* to make very good laser printers. *Maybe* they still do, at their higher end, but they are just very expensive. For the most part HP's *inkjet* printers are junk. Inkjet technology is a technology that seems to never really delivered on the promise of low-cost, but good quality. They seem to be cheaply made and can be terribly expensive in terms of consumables -- but in a nickle and dime way -- eg a $20 cartridge only prints 100-200 pages or something -- you end up being nickle and dimed to death... Part of what happened is that laser printers have gotten cheaper, generally without losing quality. Laser printers only *seem* expensive (higher capital cost -- but tend to last longer) with more costly cartrides (but each cartridge prints several *thousand* pages, vs. ink carts only printing *hundreds* of pages). Once you look in terms of *years* of service and *thousands* of pages, laser printers are actually cheaper to buy and operate than inkjets.
The other *big* gotcha is printer language: laser printers are page oriented devices -- they *must* buffer a whole page at a time -- so often laser printers speak some flavor of PostScript (they might as well, since PostScript is also page oriented) -- this makes them almost always Linux / UNIX friendly devices. Inkjet printers are line oriented and generally only buffer a "line". Inkjet printers almost never speak PostScript, but instead use a whole pile of "languages". And *some* are "winprinters" which use some arcane protocol / language that only works properly under MS-Windows.
Valeri
Hence my question...
Jay
Our office has had a Brother MFC-8510DN for at least five years - no issues.  As has been said below, you do have to download and install the driver but the process hasn't been problematic.  Having said that, I haven't pushed the limit on it's capabilities, just done rather plain printing.
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On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can.  They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
I can't speak to the sewing machines, but I have to say that I've had very good luck with Brother printers.  However, we have to be honest and acknowledge that I'm talking about LASER printers, not the $%^&* inkjet silliness.
In my DEFINITELY not-so-humble opinion, the "run away as fast as you can" advice applies to ALL inkjets that are intended for home use.
The only real differences I'm aware of between Brother and HP LASER printers are price, and the fact that the HP drivers are usually included in the distribution by default, and you have to download and install the Brother drivers.  I'm sitting next to a Brother MFC L- 2750DW that is a year or so old, and it does everything I need it to.
As always, YMMV.
-- Ron Loftin                      reloftin@twcny.rr.com
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Re ink jets. I have one, a Canon Pro wide carriage photo printer, that uses like 8 colors and makes gorgeous full color prints. Its connected to a Windows workstation. Its the first inkjet I've had that can go months of disuse, then fire up and print a glossy 11x17 or whatever right the first time.
We use the networked Brother laser for 99%
On 28/06/20 9:44 am, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
Cannot comment on sewing machines, however I always head to brother for laser printers. I don't do inkjet ever, as the cost per page doesn't fit my use case and dried out ink cartridges drive me nuts.
Great thing about brother is they really support linux! yes you do need to visit their web site but they offer drivers and they seem to provide access to all the printer's features.
Only gotcha I've had is trying to use alternative toner cartridges - that really didn't go well at all, got brother product and it was good as new - go figure.
HTH
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 03:44:00PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for long.
If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest crappiest thing you can possibly imagine.
My wife makes quilts and says the same thing about Brother sewing machines.
Sewing machines, I know nothing, not Brother machines anyway.
We've had a few different Brother laser printers here (at home) and they've been great.
The first one, a HL2070N, when first connected (via USB at that time) caused a popup window (On Centos, probably 5.x) saying brother printer found, do I want to configure it now? I did, and it just worked.
Newer ones may require Brother's drivers, but they exist and work.
My newer HL-L2360D also works with one of the default CUPS drivers on C7, though I forget which one. Discovered this only after using the Brother drivers for a year or two.
Centos 8, I should specify...
Jay
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
TIA,
Jay
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I've been running an HP MFP281 for a year or two now and it functions well. There are some downsides though to be aware of:
* HPLIP doesn't support all HP printers, and not as quickly as you might wish, so be prepared to find the nearest model for CUPS.
* HP have sharp practice over toner cartridges. To be clear, software updates will invalidate full third party cartridges which end up on the skip. The phrase "sod the customer" comes to mind.
On the plus side, quality is good. Colour is fine and the resolution of the scanner is good. The paper feed mechanisms both for printing and for scanning are fine.
HTH, Martin
On 27/06/2020 22:49, Jay Hart wrote:
Centos 8, I should specify...
Jay
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
TIA,
Jay
On 28/06/20 9:33 am, Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
I'm currently on a Brother MFC-J4620DW and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Others here have recommended brother for laser printing but I also think they're great ink jet printers. Because you're not replacing the print head every time you replace the ink cartridge it cuts back on ink cost considerably and I have had no problems using 3rd-party ink cartridges with it which really bring the cost down big time. You can order sets of 3rd-party cartidges online for next to nothing, and I can count on two fingers the number of times I've received a dud cartridge.
I wouldn't touch an HP with a ten foot pole, though.
Peter
On 6/27/20 5:33 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be?
TIA,
Jay
I have an HP Laser Jet Pro M402n connected on my network. I used to work just fine from CentOS 6 but recently no joy. Something broke and I'm not fixing it because CentOS 6 will be EOL soon and I'm in the process changing over all my systems to CentOS 8.
From CentOS 8 there's no issues as far a plain paper printing is concerned.
When I comes to printing on envelopes I just this evening won a battle with the printer when printing on #6 3/4 envelopes. I resolved the problem by setting the printer to print on C5 envelopes, and LibreOffice Writer to use the same C5 envelope. The C5 envelope is considerably larger that the #6 3/4 envelope. With some tweeking of the location of the address on the document in LibreOffice Writer I got it to print the address on the #6 3/4 envelope in the right place.
The M402n does not support the #6 3/4 envelope directly. You have to fiddle with it. If you have to print on envelopes make sure that the printer you buy supports the envelope you want to print on unless you like fiddling. Me, I'm a tuba player, not a fiddle player. YMMV
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