[CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

[Leroy Tennison]

Another vote for Brother printer Linux support, an MFC8510DN (and we haven't had issues with it either).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Smith" <fredex at fcshome.STONEHAM.ma.us>
To: "centos" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:34:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

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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