Recommend a printer? Inkjet, cheap, cheap ink [Solved]

[jj 5117]

Looking them up online is a pain, trying to see if they'll run on linux, another pain, making sure it has USB connection, another pain.

I've got the list of Gutenprint covered printers open, but I don't know what companies might provide linux drivers.

A printer/scanner/copier would also be OK.

I'm running this:

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System:
  Kernel: 6.9.8-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.9-7~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.9.8-1-liquorix-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro nosplash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.3_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15  2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux
    12 (bookworm)

Thank you!

[j2mcgreg]

You should be fine with any HP inkjet.
There's really no such thing as cheap inkjet ink.
If you really want to keep your printing costs down, you can't beat a monochrome laser.

[gimcrack]

In the long run a laser printer is cheaper, because the toner will last you up to 3 years before you have to buy a new toner. And toner is much cheaper than ink for a inkjet.

HP is usually the best company to deal with. Even Brother is good. I found a Samsung laser printer I really like. It's not color, but I don't do many color prints. If I ever need color prints I'll just go to my local drug store that has a color printer. Plus Black toner is much cheaper than color ink.

My is a printer/ scanner/ copier easy to download their Linux drivers off their site and install them. Samsung Xpress M2070FM Not sure they still have this model. HP and Brother are good like I said.

[CharlesV]

I have had very good luck with the Epson EcoTanks. The ET-2800 is a $200 printer that scans and is pretty darn good. (And ink is WAY cheaper for most people. )

But if you really want a quality print, with a less expensive cost.. then I agree a laser is the way to go.

[jj 5117]

I did a little more searching.
I'm looking at a Brother MFC-J1010DW. An "all in one". It looks like it will work. .... Will it?

[jj 5117]

Heh heh.

I didn't see your guys responses before my last entry.

Thank you guys!

[jj 5117]

I went for it. $69.99 new on that jungle-sounding place.
Thanks guys, you made it easier.

My use case is almost never printing. Every year at tax time I replace my dried-out ink. That's a Canon IP2600 I always went to Windows 7 for printing. Canon and MS don't provide the drivers for 10 or 11, and Canon doesn't post its old drivers for the "retired" equipment any more. - - And I couldn't find a cure for the ip2600 in Linux.

If I start to get print-happy, I will definitely look into laser jets.

Thanks again.

[kmathern]

I did a little more searching.
I'm looking at a Brother MFC-J1010DW. An "all in one". It looks like it will work. .... Will it?

My HL-L2320D Brother laser printer works ootb in MX-23.3.

The printer-driver-brlaser driver package is installed by default on MX-23.3 and the HL-L2320D is one of the printers that it supports.

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$ apt-cache show printer-driver-brlaser 
Package: printer-driver-brlaser
Source: brlaser
Version: 6-3
Installed-Size: 75
Maintainer: Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Description-en: printer driver for (some) Brother laser printers
 CUPS filter driver supporting (some) Brother laser printer.
 .
 This driver has been reported to work with these printers:
 .
  * Brother DCP-1510
  * Brother DCP-1602
  * Brother DCP-7030
  * Brother DCP-7040
  * Brother DCP-7055
  * Brother DCP-7055W
  * Brother DCP-7060D
  * Brother DCP-7065DN
  * Brother DCP-7080
  * Brother DCP-L2500D
  * Brother DCP-L2540DW
  * Brother HL-1110 series
  * Brother HL-1200 series
  * Brother HL-L2300D series
  * Brother HL-L2320D series
  * Brother HL-L2340D series
  * Brother HL-L2360D series
  * Brother MFC-1910W
  * Brother MFC-7240
  * Brother MFC-7360N
  * Brother MFC-7365DN
  * Brother MFC-7840W
  * Brother MFC-L2710DW
  * Lenovo M7605D
 This package contains the CUPS filter driver for the supported laser printers.
Description-md5: a758727f5f03cd50a9fe63da99d08722
Homepage: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/brlaser/printer-driver-brlaser_6-3_amd64.deb
Size: 21640
MD5sum: bf9834d83759cbdd770da09d0b461513
SHA256: de9870cad11c4d50616ede13c672ee3402860c330fda92e3d8bc2270fb4813e9

MFC-J1010DW isn't listed as one supported by the printer-driver-brlaser driver. For the MFC-J1010DW you might try fehlix's Brother-Printer-Installer-Helper Script here viewtopic.php?p=447475#p447475, it's worked well for me in the past.

[jj 5117]

That IP2600 is like, 21 years old now. It was my first replacement for my tractor dot matrix. Ha!

[jj 5117]

Thanks, @kmathern.

That will be very helpful if it does not plug and play when it gets here, in a few days.

Thank you all.