Jan Wildeboer π·:krulorange:
PSA: buy a cheap brother b/w laser printer (a printer, not a multifunction thing) and a canon selphy photo printer instead of whatever Spyware from HP etc that also prints stuff. You get the most beautiful colour pictures in a standard format and a very reliable always-working workhorse to print pages fast and easy without all the Spyware and hardware weirdness that ink printers have devolved into.
UPDATE: clarified that I am NOT talking about a multifunction device. Just a printer.
Uwe KΓΌchler
@jwildeboer
Unsolicited anecdote: I had to scan some documents at a friend's place lately, which on Windows meant installing a ginormous "driver" for the HP OfficeJet. When on top of that it required me to create an account first, I ditched it.
In the end it didn't take much more time to get it working on Fedora #Linux without that bloatware, so I happily took the effort.
Incredible how much #enshittification happened to HP products.
Trolli Schmittlauch π¦₯
@jwildeboer How's the Linux driver support though? That's one of the few traits of HP printers. Hplip is FLOSS works well, and is kept up to date.
When trying to run an old Brother printer I recall only finding proprietary 32bit drivers for it. Has that improved by now?
Jan Wildeboer π·:krulorange:
@schmittlauch Yes. Modern ones work driverless. And again, I am specifically talking about b/w laser printers. Not MFC (Multi-Function) devices.
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