[CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

Sat Jun 27 21:54:02 UTC 2020
John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:44 PM Frank Cox <theatre at 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.


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-john r pierce
  recycling used bits in santa cruz