UPS and FedEx stores also have print services.

The comments say everything. Buy anything other than a Brother printer and you are a chump.

If you start haunting your local thrift stores, there's a good chance you'll be able to pick up one in good nick for, like, 15 bucks or so.

Throw in a $12 aftermarket toner cartridge and you'll be ready to rock and roll.

I will say though, if you can test the printer at the thrift store, some brother printers have an issue where there's like a hammer on the side that is made out of a sticky cork substance, and when it breaks down over time, it will stick to the thing that it hammers on and not be able to print a second page.

To fix that, it's a very difficult and expensive process of using a screwdriver to remove three or four screws and then putting a piece of scotch tape over the cork pad so that it won't stick anymore.

Brother HL-L2350DW

Me too, Brother! This thing seems to have infinite toner.

One of these: https://www.brother-usa.com/black-and-white-printers

I have a (discontinued) HL-L2350DW that I bought several years ago and I still have like 80% toner capacity (according to Home Assistant). It still prints just as crisp as it did on day 1.

I think most newer printers will work with IPP Everywhere™ AKA driverless, so you may not need to worry about a printer driver unless you want to plug it into your computer I guess.

In which case, this package may help: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser (or check the AUR)

Not sure about where you live and your options, but near me I have a few places where I can go in and print from a USB or the cloud or emailing. In the US, Staples is the most popular. There are little convenience stores that also have printers.

The prices are dirt cheap and no worrying about drivers and shipping and all that crap.

But I print so infrequently (typically only for my cover letter and resume) that it’s worth it for my case.

Brother laser printer

I bought a Brother black and white laser printer in 2019 or so. I print around 10 pages a month on average and I'm still using the starter toner cartridge. Not bad for a $100 printer in my opinion.

I have an old Brother HL-L2350DW black and white laser printer that seemingly never runs out of toner and every device I’ve ever had can print to it. It’s wireless so I think I needed avahi to discover it but I don’t remember having any issues.

Great thing about laser printers vs inkjet is you don’t have ink drying out and the long warmup and nozzle cleaning. I go months without needing to print and it’s always ready to go in a few seconds.

I agree, I have had mine for years at this point. A monochrome wireless printer. Maybe print out 10 pages a year and still works great.

Brother laserjet.

Did you solve this? Are you using exFAT filesystem on them?

Is this the fastest way? typing this out with every call is tideous. can one add an alias for this?

thunar ./hello.txt >/dev/null 2>&1 &

The >/dev/null sends stdout to nowhere while the 2>&1 send stderr to stdout

Yes! Thank you so much 🎉🎉🎉

Would this help?

https://askubuntu.com/a/1459793

Do you remember any tools you used back then? Maybe they are still around. Although, with Linux, I would not be surprized if I could just use "dd" to copy data from LineIn to BT Audio somehow.

I can tell you I did this with mint really easily like 10 years ago. So there is hope...