Some home-user printers are cheap to buy only because they come fitted with trial-size cartridges. Office printers are more expensive to purchase than consumer ones, but generally have significantly lower consumable costs. Printer and scanner work great from any linux box on the network. and select the enter ip number when asked. Out-of-the-box Windows 10 does a pretty good job detecting and. all I do is d/l and execute the driver installation tool, answer the questions (printer is 2390dw). By Mauro Huculak published 26 January 2019 Windows 10 refuses to install an old printer Then this is what you need to do. These things are so standard that you do not need a printer driver, just a PPD file to identify the printer's capabilities such as its paper tray configuration and resolution. Since mine is on a network I give it a static ip number on the router and enter the same number in the printer network on the printer. They accept jobs via the network protocols IPP or JetDirect, and page descriptions using PostScript or PCL. Printers intended for office use have Ethernet, and a built-in print server. If you want to print from multiple machines you have to set one of them up as a print server, because USB is single-host. Once the printer model is discontinued, even support for future versions of the same OS is not guaranteed. You always require the manufacturer to make a driver that works with your operating system. Printers aimed at home users typically connect by USB, and often have very low processing power in the printer itself, meaning that much of the intelligence is in the proprietary driver. Pick a printer that's listed with a CUPS driver.I would put that differently. or any other manufacturer that does commit to open source systems.

DougieLawson wrote:Vote with your feet, don't buy Brother because they don't support open source systems.

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