[ale] Epson ET-4550 Printer Drivers on Linux?

[Charles Shapiro]

Just remember that HP is prone to suddenly breaking their printers.

http://boingboing.net/2017/01/24/hps-nonpology.html

-- CHS


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:08 PM, jslozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brother printers work will with Linux (I have one). If you are using
> Arch there are drivers in the repository (I think in the AUR). My
> printer's drivers were in the AUR.
>
> jsl
>
> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 07:57 -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > Thanks.  Well, my situation - officially my wife and I have retired
> > from our consulting business.   Practically we will continue to
> > handle dribbles of client issues for several years and do a few hours
> > of work.   And we have to do taxes.
> >
> > We now have a collection of 6 printers in the house, including 1 all-
> > in-one, NONE of which work at present.  (all have mysterious hardware
> > issues.)  To replace the color toner cartridges in the Dell 3100-cn
> > and the drum which it just decided needed replacing is about $380.
> > And then it might, or might not, actually print.
> >
> > We figure on needing to print perhaps 300-500 pages a year for the
> > next 5 years.   Thus a single all-in-one which does good color
> > printing seems to make the most sense.   With the new larger ink
> > capacity in the below units they both seem like they would provide 5-
> > 10 years of ink.   The Brother is half the cost of the Epson and
> > provides 1/4 of the ink.    We don't much care about speed.
> >
> > Buying another laser seems like an unnecessary expense at this
> > point.
> >
> > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 01:11 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:20:33PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > > > We are looking at either an Epson ET-4550 eco-tank printer or a
> > > Brother
> > > > MFC-J5830DW .
> > > >
> > > > My recollection is that the Brother drivers installed in Centos 6
> > > > without drama.   It looks like the Epson has a generic driver for
> > > > linux.
> > >
> > > Brother lasers are drama-free.  They Just Work.  Epsons are a
> > > little
> > > more complicated though.
> > >
> > > I'd not consider an inkjet and a laser to be in the same class;
> > > what do
> > > you intend to use this printer for?
> > >
> > >  - Solomon
> >
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