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Avoid HP at all cost and stick to Brother, Cannon and Epson. HP is a company that had the privilege of having their logo on a iPod but is a complete turd at the end of the day.
Linux support for Brother printers is variable. brlaser kind of works for mine, but only with a patch, and some documents still end up producing a white page...
Maybe worth mentioning the Epson EcoTank, included ink lasts forever, works offline, no weird DRM on the ink bottles that some are discussing here
Yes. I just bought the monochrome ecotank printer for a project and worked out with a rep from inkowl to get 3rd party mixable dye ink to print a custom mixed single color. worked pretty well.
I picked up an HP ENVY Inspire yesterday to do some experiments to see if I can create images of modern tech but produce something that reminds me of the nostalgia of the 80’s CRT’s using the CGA palette (cyan, magenta, black, and white). So far, I’m not happy with any of my results, but the printer does give me decent color matching.
I also considered the EcoTank. I didn’t consider custom ink though and that sounds interesting.
> Requires the HP Smart app download. > Subscription may be required; subscription may not be available in all countries > HP account required for full functionality > Get up to 5,000 pages or up to 2 years of pre-filled toner The disclaimers, or more succinctly, the anti-feature section.
> Requires the HP Smart app download. To be able to scan your documents to your phone directly. > Subscription may be required; subscription may not be available in all countries For some advanced, Prizmo-like scan features and OCR which are probably cloud based. > Get up to 5,000 pages or up to 2 years of pre-filled toner Considering printers at same size provides ~3000 pages, that's good. 2 years is probably printi…
They used to sell a 6000 page cartridge as their low end offering in this class of printers. This is what's its like to be a boiled frog.
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> Requires the HP Smart app download. To be able to scan your documents to your phone directly. > Subscription may be required; subscription may not be available in all countries For some advanced, Prizmo-like scan features and OCR which are probably cloud based. > Get up to 5,000 pages or up to 2 years of pre-filled toner Considering printers at same size provides ~3000 pages, that's good. 2 years is probably printi…
I have an HP deskjet f4210 and it doesn't work with windows 11 at all. Gave my wife a new laptop with windows 11 and there are exactly 0 drives anywhere to be found for it. Can't even re-use windows 10 drivers. However, they will run you through about 5 different tools and HP accounts and personal information gathering while trying to "find" drivers for it. Sure, I get it, super old printer, but it works just fine fo…
Why not connect to a Raspberry pi or an Orange Pi zero and share it via CUPS? CUPS will make it a mDNS enabled, "driverless" printer, which can be used from any device (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and your toaster)?
If you want wireless, don't use OrangePi Zero (1) though. Its wireless is not supported well under Linux.
I've had great luck with both Xerox and Brother printers. Both laser and inkjet. No vendor lock in, no funny business.
FWIW, Xerox inkjets were what drove me to Oki's color lasers. They erfectly good printer that they stopped selling ink for after only about a year. Knockoff ink cartridges are just money flushed away. I'm done with Xerox. Brother's printers are reliable, but have some of the worst setup and UIs in the industry. "Actively User-Hostile" is not going too far... Canon and OKI for me, please. They just work.
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Yes. I just bought the monochrome ecotank printer for a project and worked out with a rep from inkowl to get 3rd party mixable dye ink to print a custom mixed single color. worked pretty well.
I want to read more about this. I picked up an HP ENVY Inspire yesterday to do some experiments to see if I can create images of modern tech but produce something that reminds me of the nostalgia of the 80’s CRT’s using the CGA palette (cyan, magenta, black, and white). So far, I’m not happy with any of my results, but the printer does give me decent color matching. I also considered the EcoTank. I didn’t consider cu…
i’m still experimenting with ink mixing. decent results so far. the thing is there are so many ways to go about it with 8 base ink options available.
I've had great luck with both Xerox and Brother printers. Both laser and inkjet. No vendor lock in, no funny business.
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I have an HP deskjet f4210 and it doesn't work with windows 11 at all. Gave my wife a new laptop with windows 11 and there are exactly 0 drives anywhere to be found for it. Can't even re-use windows 10 drivers. However, they will run you through about 5 different tools and HP accounts and personal information gathering while trying to "find" drivers for it. Sure, I get it, super old printer, but it works just fine fo…
Just from top of my head: Why not connect to a Raspberry pi or an Orange Pi zero and share it via CUPS? CUPS will make it a mDNS enabled, "driverless" printer, which can be used from any device (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and your toaster)? If you want wireless, don't use OrangePi Zero (1) though. Its wireless is not supported well under Linux.
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I want to read more about this. I picked up an HP ENVY Inspire yesterday to do some experiments to see if I can create images of modern tech but produce something that reminds me of the nostalgia of the 80’s CRT’s using the CGA palette (cyan, magenta, black, and white). So far, I’m not happy with any of my results, but the printer does give me decent color matching. I also considered the EcoTank. I didn’t consider cu…
I wasn’t able to find much info on it. I went around compared all the printers i could find then compared the third party ink options for the ones i was interested. i’m still experimenting with ink mixing. decent results so far. the thing is there are so many ways to go about it with 8 base ink options available.
> Requires the HP Smart app download. > Subscription may be required; subscription may not be available in all countries > HP account required for full functionality > Get up to 5,000 pages or up to 2 years of pre-filled toner The disclaimers, or more succinctly, the anti-feature section.