Ideally I am looking for a printer with

  1. opensource - Hardware, firmware, drivers, All OS support,
  2. No Shenanigans like mixing up colors, wasting ink in storage, hidden codes
  3. Easy to maintain and repair,
  4. low ink cost
  5. No Wifi or bluetooth
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[–] 55 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Brother HL-L2310D, super basic black-and-white laser. USB only, no Wi-Fi junk, no “phone app required” crap. Just stick it in, install drivers, and it spits out pages. Toner is cheap and it doesn’t freak out when you don’t use it for a week.

Brother HL-L2370DN, same deal but with wired LAN if you want to share it on a network. Still no Wi-Fi/Bluetooth nonsense. Nice solid little workhorse, prints fast, simple guts, cheap toner, none of that overhyped smart printer fluff.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Brother

    Are their drivers open source?

    EDIT: I guess you dont need the official drivers https://wiki.debian.org/Brother

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I've never installed a manufacturer's driver for my brother printer across distributions. Even live USB images can print to it with no trouble.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    How perfect is it ? What is the Catch here ?

    1 .opensource - Hardware, firmware, drivers, All OS support, 2. No Shenanigans like mixing up colors, wasting ink in storage, hidden codes 3. Easy to maintain and repair, 4. low ink cost 5. No Wifi or bluetooth

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