HP Printer died, what do you use/recommend on MX?

[figueroa]

Even that's not necessarily complete. I have a Brother HL-5470DW I'm happily using with MX-23 that I don't see listed on that site.

Of course it's not complete. Manufacturers keep spinning out new printer models as fast as people will buy them. Open Printing site is the most authoritative single place on the web, so if you want it to be more complete, contribute what you know to it. That's how open source works.

[JeffA]

The HL-5470DW has been discontinued for some years.

Probably best to check to check with the Brother webpage, as suggested above where that model is indeed listed, though I doubt the OP will be getting a model that's been discontinued that long.

[jj 5117]

If a printer supports driverless printing then it is almost a no brainer.

So, it'd be perfect for me.
I hadn't heard of such a thing until now.
It's not an issue for me at the moment. I'll catch up when I have to.
:)

[JeffA]

If a printer supports driverless printing then it is almost a no brainer.

So, it'd be perfect for me.
I hadn't heard of such a thing until now.
It's not an issue for me at the moment. I'll catch up when I have to.
:)

That is good to know. I guess I'm behind the times also.

I'm not ready for driverless cars, but I'd definitely consider a driverless printer. One step at a time, I guess.

[AVLinux]

For anyone who may care,

I ended up going a bit above and beyond my original plan because I've decided to add services for small run CD duplication and graphic design to the Studio (believe it or not there is still some demand). Some people aren't happy with producing an album and not having something in their hands to show for it, streaming is wonderful in some ways and vinyl is prohibitively expensive and CDs are having a bit of a renaissance which will most likely be short lived I realize. In the meantime for my own 'real job' needs and for the part-time Studio customers I figured a good color laser printer probably wouldn't be a bad way to go so we got a Brother MFC-L3720. I installed the Linux Printer and Scanner Drivers from the Brother site and everything works perfectly and the print quality is really excellent compared to the 8610 inkjet printer it replaced. It will remain to be seen how long the Toner lasts and how it pencils out per sheet I guess..

Thanks all for the answers and advice, a great community here!

[CharlesV]

Excellent! Glad you found one that is working well for you :-)

[asqwerth]

Nice, good luck with the CD duplication. I don't like not having something "in my hands" and depending only on stream [I don't even have a spotify account], but for me FLAC files of an album are good enough. I've been buying a few albums that way from Bandcamp.

[jj 5117]

I'm not ready for driverless cars, but I'd definitely consider a driverless printer. One step at a time, I guess.

HA!

Ah, for an upvote button.

[FullScale4Me]

I'm not ready for driverless cars, but I'd definitely consider a driverless printer. One step at a time, I guess.

HA!

Ah, for an upvote button.

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[reidun]

....sometimes the driverless detection in certain distros appear to work -- it can see the printer/scanner on your system -- but the URI location the detector finds [or maybe the address format it uses] doesn't actually get the printer working. I tend to have to set the location manually, since I have a fixed home network address for my printer.

Thankfully I always know that if the driverless entry does not work, Brother's own driver that you can download from the page for your particular model will indeed work once you set up the URI location correctly.

Maybe this URI location is my current problem.

I have been using a Brother MFC-8460N monochrome laser for about 18 years now, and it's been a workhorse. However, over time it has started printing more and more error messages such as "Memory full" or some kind of "Command stack" message. It can print pages of text only just fine, seems to have trouble with images, even some small logos give trouble. (Would a memory upgrade help with this? It has an empty memory slot.)

So I thought maybe it's time to get a newer printer that can handle more complicated graphics. Found a used Brother HL-L2390DW locally, and for the life of me I cannot get it to print. I have tried installing via the Brother install utility that is supposed to install all three drivers at once and I have tried doing it driverlessly, both multiple times. The MFC always had a .ppd that was super simple to install, but there is no .ppd available for this printer. It just keeps saying "Processing - Waiting for printer to become available." I'm connecting with a USB, and have tried a different cable and different USB ports to no avail.



So maybe I need to change the device URI, but I need help figuring out what that would be.

Here's the output of lpstat -t if that helps:

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scheduler is running
no system default destination
device for HLL2390DW: usb://dev/usb/lp0
HLL2390DW accepting requests since Sat 15 Mar 2025 03:43:46 PM
printer HLL2390DW now printing HLL2390DW-1204.  enabled since Sat 15 Mar 2025 03:43:46 PM
	Waiting for printer to become available.
HLL2390DW-1204          root              1024   Sat 15 Mar 2025 03:43:46 PM

Any help much appreciated!