<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm somewhat interested in the answers to this thread actually...</div><div><br></div><div>
---> Mentioning specific models and degrees of success is worthwhile.
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>I second the recommendation to choose, if possible, a model that does two-sided printing, just for the principle of paper economy...<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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...)<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br><br>===<br>Tai Kedzierski<br></div><div><br></div>EdLUG Maintainer: <a href="https://edlug.gitlab.io/" target="_blank">https://edlug.gitlab.io/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Edinburgh Language Meetup Organiser</div><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Edinburgh-Language-Exchange-Meetup-Group/" target="_blank">https://www.meetup.com/Edinburgh-Language-Exchange-Meetup-Group/</a><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><i>Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price.</i><br>
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software" target="_blank">https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software</a><br></font><font size="2"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 20:26, Magnus Hagdorn <<a href="mailto:magnus.hagdorn@marsupium.org">magnus.hagdorn@marsupium.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Marion,<br>
I've recently upgraded my printer to a networked HP colour laser<br>
printer. I am very happy with it. I plugged it into the network and<br>
that was that.<br>
<br>
I would look into a laser printer as they tend to be cheaper to run and<br>
you don't need to worry about looking after the inks. Always look at<br>
the per page costs. The other thing I would insist on these days is a<br>
duplex unit, ie double sided printing.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
magnus<br>
<br>
On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 18:14 +0000, emailontheweb wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> I'm looking for a printer-scanner that is compatible with Linux<br>
> Mint.Nothing too fancy ,mainly for printing black and white without<br>
> eating up ink like crazy...<br>
> How do you know before buying a printer if it will be Linux<br>
> compatible ?<br>
> <br>
> Also if anyone knows of/can recommend<br>
> a good online cartridge refill store, that would be helpful.<br>
> <br>
> Does anyone know of/can recommend an Android app that is privacy<br>
> focused for screensharing within an app?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Marion<br>
<br>
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