@Anarcat oh god not brother - fine printers but their linux support is non-existent. we gave ours away to a friend who uses mac os and bought the cheapest HP B&W laser duplex model we could find (M203dw). linux support is not perfect but it's good enough for us.
@Anarcat I bought a Ricoh 311dn laser printer in 2016 or so for ~60-80€. It's only b&w, no scanner, wireless connectivity or any fancy stuff. But a cartridge will cost 20€, print 3000 pages and with duplex printing it spits out whole books in record time. Other people's printers have felt like stone age technology since then.
@Anarcat hmm checked eBay here in Europe and that model is still going for €80 used, which I paid for it new on sale years ago. Can't speak to the longevity of Ricoh's printer division. Though eBay still has a multitude of secondary market producers for the toner cartridges and no DRM or any bullshit.
All I'd recommend is to stay clear of HP, I think their plan is to extend the subscription model to printing and make you pay on every page you print at home on top of the hardware you own lol 🫠🔫
@Anarcat while I can't recommend a model (our Brother is from 2015), I would expect that "don't expect scanning to work from Linux" is not true anymore. Most should "just work" over the network using https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan (packaged in Debian).
@zhenech right, but i guess i just don't worry about scanning anymore. i actually own a flatbed scanner but never use it, it's just so much easier to snap a picture with my phone nowadays: it's sync'd automatically to my laptop with syncthing and i typically need to do postprocessing anyways, even with scanned stuff, so it's not much work to straighten things one from the phone. at least not enough that it warrants an extra device taking up space forever.
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