That’s when I really start hating printers.
Aside from setup sometimes there are issues with margins and other printing settings which vary from the results from a Windows machine. Still, I’ve found setting up most printers in linux can be annoying if the automatic setup fails for any reason. The trouble for me has been with shared printers connected locally to Windows machines. Most printers, HP or Brother, have been automatically detected in linux if they were local or network printers. Hplip is great in terms of the rich feature set that seems unrivaled. For purely the printing aspect, laser printers generally have been reliable. I’ve also had HP multifunction printers (inkjet L7700, and laserjet 3330) that have been frustrating, with the automatic document feeder dying and weird behavior of the scanner bulb. I’ve had good luck with a basic Brother laser printer (HL-2040, non-networked, USB) for years in terms of reliability, and it’s still in use. My sample size is too small to be meaningful as a recommendation. Please give me some clues on how to pick the right laser printer to survive the future of Fedora (if possible). So I guess they are crossed off the list.Īnd when I say “life” of the printer, I am talking possible 10+ years., as that is what I got from the LBP3300. Does this mean the HP would have a better chance of remaining compatible for the life of the printer?Ĭanon only provide their proprietary CAPT drivers and do not provide any support for Linux. I see that the HP drivers (hplip) are available in the Fedora repo. I prefer Canon or HP from a reliability standpoint. So what printer should I choose that will survive updates to CUPS? Lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. When adding the existing printer with lpadmin, it now says: Hope this is the right place for this request.Īfter my Canon LBP 3300 stopped working recently and attempts to fix the problem failed I am considering selling it off and purchasing a new laser printer.įrom what I can tell, CUPS is moving towards IPP as the main way of communicating with printers.
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