Printer Question

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 18:40:22 UTC 2013


I have a Brother MFC 9340CDW that Im happy with. I had just a few
little problems getting the updated drivers installed (Im on 10.04)
but its worked fine since.

Wade
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an old Epson Stylus Color C84 that I bought years ago.  It has
> actually been very reliable.  But, the growing list of things that it can't
> do has prodded me into finally replacing it.  I have not seen a lot of bad
> press on the Brother products.  The ink prices seem to be better than either
> Epson of HP.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Juan R. de Silva
> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:51:28 -0700, Barry Premeaux wrote:
>>
>> I had before HP OfficeJet. It is a common consensus that HP is well
>> supported in Linux. In my experience however the Brother drivers are way,
>> way better then hplip. My HP OfficeJet did not have built-in duplex and I
>> had to use hplip provided manual "duplex" option. That is printing first
>> odd pages, then turning the pile over and printing the even pages. hplip
>> always screwed it up giving me headache. I not only had to turn the whole
>> pile over but I had to turn each page up down too. That was a nightmare.
>>
>> Speaking of quality of the printer itself, there is no way HP flimsy
>> printers can come even close with the quality of my Brother MFC. Very
>> sturdy build, reliable workhorse. I have a laser All-in-One with duplex
>> built-in (no wireless) and, since I get it on sale, it cost me much less
>> than the flimsy HP OfficeJet. After I've discovered for myself Brother
>> MFCs, I'd never go back to any of HP products.
>>
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