Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 17:49:41 UTC 2018


There were native Debian drivers that could print on my printer.  They
could not access all features, such as duplex printing.  So I installed the
Brother drivers and I'm happy.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Daniel Howard <djh at quantifind.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I know there are probably multiple places where such ratings can be
>> found.  Not knowing which are reliable, I'm sort of asking for ratings of
>> the ratings, I guess.  Mostly, though, I want ratings of recent models,
>> from a Linux/Debian/Ubuntu perspective as opposed to the usual Windows
>> slant.  I'm presuming the few machines that I dual-boot will be able to
>> work with whatever printer I have.
>>
>> So, where to look?
>>
>
> ​Hello,
>
> For what it is worth, Ubuntu does really great with USB Printing. For
> years my experience has been "plug and play" whereas Mac/Windows has had to
> sit around figuring its driver out.
>
> In 18.04 I have been super pleased that it seems I am no longer managing
> printers. I click "Print" and it tells me what printers are around on my
> local network, and then it works!
>
> Anyway, my prior wisdom was you can't go wrong with HP, but they've been
> headed downhill and now I'm a Brother man.
>
> -d​
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