On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 22:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on
> Fedora.
>
> I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on
> Fedora, from
> Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use the printer
> all
> that much, and every single one of them eventually (after I've had
> it
> for a
> few months) develops a head clog that is so bad that not even the
> printer's
> cleaning cycle can fix it. I have tried some of the cleaning kits
> with not
> much success (I'm a lousy handyman), and even if I could get the
> cleaning
> kits to work, I'd rather find a printer where I can avoid this
> headache.
>
> So, is there any such thing as an all-in-one ink jet printer that
> does not
> suffer from this problem if it is not used regularly? Question #2
> is,
> are
> any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all
> functions) with
> Fedora Linux?
I have a wireless Brother laser all-in-one that I use on a daily
basis
and has been working since 2014 on Fedora. You just download a
tarfile
from their support page and run it to set the thing up. Both scanner
and printer work.
Further to the above, if you donĀ“t actually require colour printing
(and almost no-one really does) there is no upside to getting an ink-
jet printer. Monochrome lasers are more reliable and cheaper in the
long run.
poc