On Saturday, January 26, 2013 09:23:07 AM Anton Aylward wrote:
Jeffrey L. Taylor said the following on 01/25/2013 11:55 PM:
Our Lexmark printer has died an early death. The drivers were slow and fragile, so I will not be replacing it with another Lexmark. Recommendations or sites with Linux compatibility info wanted. We need one that does photocopies and printing. No landline so fax is useless. Scanner might be nice, but Linux support has been so sparse for the scanner in All-in-One, we don't bother. It needs to be a network (Ethernet or WiFi) printer. I've been using Brother laserjets for over a decade - nearly two now. They are long lived, reliable and I've never had problems setting them up. The one I have now was a "good deal", I really had no other incentive to replace the old one.
Most everything above the entry-level inkjets which you buy cos its cheaper to buy the package and throw the printer away but keep the cartridges (!) seems to have triple input - network, parallel and usb.
What *may* matter is your context. Some models are inherently more suited to 'industrial grade production' than others. If you need a high duty cycle then that is going to be more of a determining factor than anything else: high capacity paper and ink, high wear tolerance. Heck, the old HP Laserjet-II you could throw off a desk (BTDT) and run it flat out all day and everyone and his brother did refills for it. They never seemed to wear out.
Do prioritise your requirement list.
I have a Brothers MFC-J6710DW Multi Function printer. it has now been on two version of openSUSE linux and works flawlessly. The Printer is decent quality. The scanner works with XSane just fine. Have not had a need for the FAX yet. I use the Brothers Drivers. My only complaint is the Brothers Drivers are still 32-bit, but they work fine on my 64-bit OS and system. Running under KDE 4.9.5. desktop. -- openSUSE 12.2(Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop x86_64)| KDE 4.9.5 "release 3"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org