[EdLUG] Linux Compatible Printer & Screenshare App

[Tai Kedzierski]

I'm somewhat interested in the answers to this thread actually...

---> Mentioning specific models and degrees of success is worthwhile.

I have an old Brother printer, laserjet, and in the 10 years I've had it I
have only needed to change the toner once... last year. I don't do all that
much printing, mind you.
It's a DCP7010 model, which I can confirm works with Linux out of the box
for printing. Scanning has been hit-and-miss with the various scanning
apps, I'm pretty sure it worked once on one distro, but has not worked
since...

I second the recommendation to choose, if possible, a model that does
two-sided printing, just for the principle of paper economy...


I remember battling with a Lexmark printer once for a customer, and after
3hours of would-be-solutions and non-starters, including driver sources and
compiling, I had to announce it as a no-go and that the customer needed to
buy a new printer. I hated having to say that, and curse Lexmark to this
day. That said, I know there are Lexmark drivers for Linux for other models.

40 years of home printing, and the PC still "can't find" the sodding thing
that's right next to it on a USB line. One dreams of the halcyon days of
sending PostScript over a serial port. (I used to tech support a printing
solution at Adobe and learned a little about this ; the old reliable serial
feed was a fantastic idea - throw some PCL or PS at it and away you went.
You could even filter the stuff through `sed` if you were daring enough...)


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On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 20:26, Magnus Hagdorn <magnus.hagdorn at marsupium.org>
wrote:

> Hi Marion,
> I've recently upgraded my printer to a networked HP colour laser
> printer. I am very happy with it. I plugged it into the network and
> that was that.
>
> I would look into a laser printer as they tend to be cheaper to run and
> you don't need to worry about looking after the inks. Always look at
> the per page costs. The other thing I would insist on these days is a
> duplex unit, ie double sided printing.
>
> Cheers
> magnus
>
> On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 18:14 +0000, emailontheweb wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm looking for a printer-scanner that is compatible with Linux
> > Mint.Nothing too fancy ,mainly for printing black and white without
> > eating up ink like crazy...
> > How do you know before buying a printer if it will be Linux
> > compatible ?
> >
> > Also if anyone knows of/can recommend
> > a good online cartridge refill store, that would be helpful.
> >
> > Does anyone know of/can recommend an Android app that is privacy
> > focused for screensharing within an app?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marion
>
>
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