Ideally I am looking for a printer with
- opensource - Hardware, firmware, drivers, All OS support,
- No Shenanigans like mixing up colors, wasting ink in storage, hidden codes
- Easy to maintain and repair,
- low ink cost
- No Wifi or bluetooth
Ideally I am looking for a printer with
Brother HL-L2310D, super basic black-and-white laser. USB only, no Wi-Fi junk, no “phone app required” crap. Just stick it in, install drivers, and it spits out pages. Toner is cheap and it doesn’t freak out when you don’t use it for a week.
Brother HL-L2370DN, same deal but with wired LAN if you want to share it on a network. Still no Wi-Fi/Bluetooth nonsense. Nice solid little workhorse, prints fast, simple guts, cheap toner, none of that overhyped smart printer fluff.
Are their drivers open source?
EDIT: I guess you dont need the official drivers https://wiki.debian.org/Brother
Bless you🙏
+1 for the 2370DN. Works wonder (with Linux, Mac and Windows) and replaced a 12 years old model from… Brother that also worked well.
How perfect is it ? What is the Catch here ?
1 .opensource - Hardware, firmware, drivers, All OS support, 2. No Shenanigans like mixing up colors, wasting ink in storage, hidden codes 3. Easy to maintain and repair, 4. low ink cost 5. No Wifi or bluetooth