On 6/12/25 08:32, Greg wrote:
I'll argue with this statement Greg. I have 2 brother printers. An economy laser and an elderly ink squirt-er. Both run best with the factory Linux drivers but to do that, cups-browsed must be removed. The brother drivers, particularly for the MFC-J6920DW make the printer do everything advertised on the box, including stunningly great color from photo paper in the top tray, but the cups drivers have yet to recognize the fact the printer has two trays, instead using the 50 cents a sheet photo paper in the top tray for everything. The cost of that is why I'm adamant about this. Brother actively supports its printers with linux drivers.On 2025-06-12, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 04:17:26PM -0000, Greg wrote:I have a Brother HL-2350DW and it just worked without further ado.Pretty much any modern networked single-function printer will just work. I've used canon and lexmark fairly recently, but no drivers are required for any brand's printer that supports driverless IPP. (And any vendor drivers are more likely to screw things up than help at this point.)
Multifunction printers are a whole different story, but I've always preferred a printer to print and a scanner to scan.For the odd document I need to "scan," I use my smartphone these days. .
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