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  Re: seeking new laser printer Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2024-12-08 19:40 +0100

#275408 — Re: seeking new laser printer

On 2024-12-08 10:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm).  After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP.  At work I had problems with Linux drivers for a Xerox laser, and I'm trying to avoid that.  Some Reddit posts favor Brother.

Some debian-user posts favour Brother, such as mine from September, 
copied below. 😆


Every time this question comes up at work, the response is always the 
same: to send the latest version of this article:
"After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is 
still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework
My Brother MFC-L2740DW All-In-One Mono Laser (discontinued) is almost 
ten years old and continues to serve me well. I am sure they have newer 
models that are similar. It is on my WiFi network (as 192.168.0.42) and 
also serves a Mac and a Windows PC.

- Open source CUPS drivers work (foomatic-db-compressed-ppds 
20230202-1), though the Gnome print dialog seems to required for high 
quality printing

- Closed source (?) scanner drivers work (brscan4 0.4.11-10)

I am on sid amd64. My setup notes:


CUPS config:

Use ipp connection and select Brother / IPP Everywhere driver

Description:    Brother MFC-L2740DW
Driver:         MFC-L2740DW series - IPP Everywhere (grayscale, 2-sided 
printing)
Connection:     ipp://192.168.0.42/ipp
Defaults:       job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm 
sides=two-sided-long-edge

Options: quality normal, two-sided long edge


Sane config (run as root):

brsaneconfig4 -a name=Brother_MFC-L2740DW model=MFC-L2740DW ip=192.168.0.42

Check config:

$ cat /etc/opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/brsanenetdevice4.cfg
DEVICE=Brother_MFC-L2740DW , "MFC-L2740DW" , 0x4f9:0x320 , 
IP-ADDRESS=192.168.0.42


Cheers,

-- 
Ash Joubert (they/them) <ash@transient.nz>
Director / Game Developer
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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