15 Sep
2011
15 Sep
'11
3:56 a.m.
On 14 September 2011 at 18:35, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
That said. Is there no-one who will rid the world of
printers
that suck, and whose cartridges cost more than the printer?
(Also, works with CUPS on Linux, in such a way that it actually
presents useful ERROR MESSAGES, instead of just unhelpfully
blinking a light over and over with no details as to what
exactly is wrong?)
I figured I'd ask this group.
I had the same issue. About 6 months ago I got a Brother
MFC-8480DN from Costco. The toner cartridge it comes with is
supposed to be good for 50k pages. The unit prints in b/w but
scans in color. Scanning works with [X]SANE. Scanning works
over Ethernet. Printing can work over Ethernet or parallel port
and I think USB too. It's also a fine copier and fax machine.
I grabbed the easy to find Brother drives free from their site.
They installed just fine. These are brmfcfaxcups, brscan-skey,
and brscan3. All that cooperates just fine with CUPS. I can't
tell you about error message usefulness as I've never had one.
I have two friends who got the color version of this unit.
Neither one survived a full year, only about 11 months. Another
friend of mine has a unit like mine, but older, that's never had
any trouble in the years he's had it.
G'luck....
--
Kevin