Hey, sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask this (feel free to show me the way). I want to get myself a printer that can also scan. Main purpose is to not have endless sheets of paper laying around, but to scan Documents I recieve and then throwing them away so that I only have them digitally and can print stuff out only when I need them. Now I know that printers are the worst piece of hardware known to man and my needs not office-level.It doesn’t have to have any more buttons or features than are needed to scan a doublesided document and print them, without clogging/eating paper, and print black and white text without complaining about being low on yellow ink.
So my question generally is: what is the most minimalist, non-bullshit printer/scanner that I could get? But since all my devices run Linux I figured I’d just ask this here. Are there any big issues I have to look out for? Brands to avoid? (i.e nvidia being a no go for a lot of linux users) Preferably
All-time classic Verge article on this subject:
https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
Everyone is saying Brother, and I’ll echo that. I want to add that I’m fond of their EcoTank line; there’re all-in-one scanner/printers, but also they refill with liquid ink (as opposed to cartridges) and are super cost-effective as a result. I really like our’s, and we’ve had it for two years; the next time I run out of ink on the Canon inkjet we (also) have, I’m just going to replace it with another EcoTank instead of buying more cartidges.
EcoTank is Epson, and Canon also has a similar MegaTank line. Unfortunately Brother has no tank-based printer (that I’m aware of).
Oh! Shit, you’re right! Sorry.
That said, it worked OOTB with our Linux machines, incl scanning.
