i need some help buying a monochrome laser printer with scanning that supports linux, plug and play is a nice thing to have.

🖨️ my available brands are : Epson, cannon and brother

❌ no need for WiFi, fax ,ect

  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You always need a driver. What you don’t want is a driver that’s malware. Brother is the best brand in that regard, but unfortunately becoming worse too.

    • 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Printing itself is doomed to enshitification since any non-shit new project about it is met with the usual “why bother, we as a world need to stop printing anyway”