Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a "put the logic in the Windoze driver" problem vs telling a good printer "Print this".
My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don't have to.
Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don't let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for "legit" ink refills.
I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.
I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.
It's absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.
I will talk shit about a lot of printers, but I've had a Brother workhorse laser for years. It's black and white. You tell it to print and it spits out pages. I don't know if they still make them that way but they used to be amazing at the very least.
They do, absolute workhorses with no bullshit. Only printer I will ever pay money for.
😆Can someone make a similar one for bluetooth devices too, pretty please?
The longer I work in the tech industry, the more I empathize with it. All the warning signs were there but I ignored them 😭
No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
it took me an hour to scan and send 2 one page forms successfully. that's about the same speed i could write everything on the pages by hand and address an envelope, so i'd say they work okay.
We could have Forerunner-level technology and the damn printers still wouldn't work
It'd be nice if there were open source printers. Somehow we have a few for 3D printers but not 2D printers, and it is annoying as hell.
It's because the printer heads are really hard to make, since the individual nozzles are so tiny.
An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that's not even a particularly high resolution printer.
Source on SLA printer feature size: https://formlabs.com/blog/3d-printer-resolution-meaning/
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