On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 22:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 09:57 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > Well, not completely OT because I do need one that will work on > > Fedora. > > > > 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. I have tried some of the cleaning kits > > with not > > much success (I'm a lousy handyman), and even if I could get the > > cleaning > > kits to work, I'd rather find a printer where I can avoid this > > headache. > > > > So, is there any such thing as an all-in-one ink jet printer that > > does not > > suffer from this problem if it is not used regularly? Question #2 > > is, > > are > > any of the all-in-one laser printers any good and work (all > > functions) with > > Fedora Linux? > > I have a wireless Brother laser all-in-one that I use on a daily > basis > and has been working since 2014 on Fedora. You just download a > tarfile > from their support page and run it to set the thing up. Both scanner > and printer work.
Further to the above, if you don´t actually require colour printing (and almost no-one really does) there is no upside to getting an ink- jet printer. Monochrome lasers are more reliable and cheaper in the long run. poc _______________________________________________ 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
