On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:09:15PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/11/2017 3:58 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >I faced the same issue some years ago, and found a low-priced mono
> >laser that lated me quite a few years. no color, but few thing I
> >wanted to print actually demanded color.
>
> my last two laser printers have been Brother black&white all-in-ones
> ("MFC"). *VERY* cheap per page printing costs, even if you use
> Brother brand toner cartridges. They make useful copy machines,
> they are fast (22 page per minute, very short first page warmup).
> The newer one we now have does double sided scanning, and double
> sided printing. Both of these are ethernet/network printers.
> decent linux support for printing. the scanner function can direct
> email scans in PDF or JPG format, so there's no need for linux
> drivers for scanning.
I can second the Brother printers. My original one (HL-2070N)
was supported well by one of the free printer drivers already
available on Linux. More recently we have a MFC that works great
with the Brother drivers for Linux.
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