On Thu, 2024-03-21 at 08:58 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
My Brother all-in-one units (I've had two) have never done that. Also, I can get third-party toner cartridges for very reasonable prices.
Did you get that unit after crossing your fingers, and hoping that it works, or did you verify compatibility somehow. I tried reconciling what's on the market now versus xsane's hardware compatibility list without much luck.
No, I didn't check. I had an earlier Brother unit for years before it finally gave up the ghost and I got an updated one (didn't even notice it does double-sided printing until it worked :-). Any modern scanner should support DNS-SD via Avahi on Linux. Even more so because Microsoft has announced that they will no longer ship manufacturer device drivers for printers and scanners, so the market is being pushed into standardising. I don't know if some special use-cases might require a device-specific driver, but I don't personally care.
As regards toner compatibility, Amazon has a number of brands that work. I tend to get special offers of 2 at a time.
poc