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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[–] 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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