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I ended up buying an M203dw. CUPS detected it on my home network and, other than selecting it as the default printer, automatically took care of all the setup. Very Linux-friendly.

But I can see why this one sells in the $100+ range. Lots of plastic parts that feel flimsy or brittle, and that probably foretell a useful service life much shorter than my old 4+ tank achieved.

The reason I started this thread was to get some good advice on laser printers & Linux. Which I got & bought a Brother MFC-L2713DW early June 2020. It has done everything I've asked of it (that said, I've never needed to use the scanner).

I didn't bother going the extra mile with driver installation. My easy solution for any software that doesn't want/know how to print via the drivers that are installed, is to just copy the content that I do want to print to Libreoffice & print it from there. :)

Libreoffice gives me such easy control of size & placement of content (images or whatever) & is WYSIWYG (as lasers should be anyway).

So I have Brotherly love.