[ale] New Printer Recommendations?

[Horkan Smith]

*Mostly* agree re: Brother

MFC-9970cdw and MFC-L5900DW have behaved well for us and are easy to set up for Linux.  I was able to find a non-binary driver for the MFC-9970 as well.

HL-3180cdw works, but it's wifi only, and can be unreliable if you want to use the (defalt) multicast name lookup, even when sitting w/in a few feet of the access point.

HL-3170cdw has ethernet, but we've had two fail w/ a drum problem in less than a year, and won't buy again.

later!
    horkan

On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
>Anything Brother, basically.
>
>On 9/7/19 9:46 AM, Derek Atkins via Ale wrote:
>>Hi,
>>We've got an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281cdw.
>>It's worked.... okay.  It often "crashes" in the middle of a print job,
>>only printing like have a page, or stopping mid-way through a "large" PDF
>>(where "large" can be as small as 3-4MB).  Sometimes it just falls off the
>>wifi network (I don't really blame the printer for this).
>>
>>We paid around $300 for the printer from Costco a year or so ago.
>>The toner is running out, and replacement toner is....  $300.
>>
>>So we're thinking of just replacing the printer instead of paying for more
>>toner for a printer that, frankly, we don't like.
>>
>>We USED to have a Xerox that we loved, until it started ghosting and the
>>paper jammed.
>>
>>We are looking for:
>>-- Color (preferably LaserJet)
>>-- Ethernet
>>-- Duplex
>>-- scanner w/ document feeder
>>-- works on Mac and Linux (I'm happy pulling a PPF file from the mac)
>>
>>Any suggestions from the group?
>>
>>-derek
>>
>
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