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<p>I bought a HP all in one in March. My old 2003 vintage HP 2500Ln
started putting toner on the floor and the inside was a mess. It
only did single sided too.<br>
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<p>I have an HP Colour Laserjet Pro MFP M479fdw. Its got hot and
cold running everything.</p>
<p>Printing just works. If the ethernet cable is connected, it will
not connect to wifi network but wifi direct still works. I like
that as my wifi network contains all my untrusted devices, so its
not a bridge across my network segments. <br>
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<p>Scanning under Linux is a bit odd. You need to supply it with a
USB memory stick. It scans to PDF to the memory stick, which you
can either take away, or download from its web server. Turning on
the web server is buried in the setup and not intuitive. It does
not use the SANE network scanner driver.<br>
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<p>The printer has a duplex unit as standard, as does the scanner
ADF.</p>
<p>I've not tested the fax as its nowhere near a phone point. Does
anyone else have a fax these days?<br>
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<p>It will print directly from a USB stick too. That and Bluetooth
connectivity are untested.<br>
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<p>I didn't particularly want this model but HP had a money back
offer on it, which means it cost me less that a set of replacement
HP toners and a lot less that the one I thought about.<br>
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<p>I didn't sign up to HPs ink for life, I don't print enough to
make it worth while. When the toners are empty, if I can get
another deal along the same lines, I'll just replace it, my last
printer lasted me 17 years and was on its second set of toners and
original image drum.<br>
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<p>I've only tested wired network printing and scanning from Gentoo
using Balsa, Firefox and LibreOffice.</p>
<p>Android 9 Wifi Direct printing works without HPs intrusive app
from the Play Store. That should be avoided.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Roy Bamford.<br>
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<div>I'm somewhat interested in the answers to this thread
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---> Mentioning specific models and degrees of success is
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<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
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<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>
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<div>I second the recommendation to choose, if possible, a model
that does two-sided printing, just for the principle of paper
economy...<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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Cheers<br>
magnus<br>
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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>
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> 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>
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