On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I have found a number of ink jet all-in-ones that work well on > Fedora, from Epson, HP, and Brother. The problem is that I don't use > the printer all that much, and every single one of them eventually > (after I've had it for a few months) develops a head clog that is so > bad that not even the printer's cleaning cycle can fix it.
That's a general problem with the inkjet technology. That, and wasting lots of ink in their cleaning cycle before they'll print. I've got an all-in-one that insists on wasting several minutes cleaning the heads even if I just want to use the scanner by itself. I've not heard of any that don't behave like that (clogging and ink wasting), and was advised to just print something once a week or so, whether you needed to, or not. Print a small shopping list, bank statement, something like that. For printing I use an old HP LaserJet. HP has been one of the better manufacturers for producing hardware that worked on Linux. Any that have built in networking and support postscript is a promising sign of being usable (e.g. search for those models first, then see if you can find Linux info). I believe some people have good luck with the Brother brand, too. Now that Macs use CUPs for printing, it should be easier to find a printer that works with Linux. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.21-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 14 18:03:50 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
