Brother printers are plug and play for me.
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+1 Once you try Brother printers, you never go back.
+2 WiFi b&w Brother laser with aftermarket toner, haven't looked back.
I love mine, it just works. I have Linux, macOS, and Windows devices printing to mine flawlessly.
Definitely agree. Mine just works immediately without any issues.
Long story short: if your printer supports IPP Everywhere (it probably does) you don't need drivers or any sort of software other than CUPS.
This is the correct answer. IPP Everywhere support is often advertised as AirPrint and sometimes as Mopria, which all means that it will work with CUPS without extra drivers.
In fact, with the upcoming version 3, CUPS will drop direct support for non-IPP printers.
All inkjet printers are an ink scam. If you don't need color, or need it infrequently, get a b/w laser printer and be done with it. I bought a used HP Laserjet 2430 back with Ubuntu 18 and never looked back. I print a lot, and just a month ago broke into a toner cartridge I bought five years ago.
If it's a network printer and it lists Postscript and/or PCL6 support on its specs it should be good for at least basic printing. I still use my Brother laser though, haven't needed to replace it yet.
Yup, network printers work so much easier on Linux than USB printers.
I have no idea if this is common, but the HP I have supports both postscript and PDF (and PCL-something), which makes my life much easier.
I have to regularly use HP, Brother, and Epson wireless printers with my laptop, and they've all worked via CUPS with no tinkering that I can recall. In one of the cases (the Epson WF-3720) the available settings and indicators were very limited, but beyond that no issues.
I have an HP LaserJet P1005 from 15 years ago which mostly works fine with Hplip except that every once in a while it asks me to reinstall the proprietary plugin needed. I'm taking note of how other brands seem to work better but to be honest I print so little since I digitally sign everything that once I run out of toner it's far cheaper for me to have something printed in a shop than to replace it.
My partner's crappy HP all in one that charges insane prices for ink seems to work fine whenever I rarely have to use it.
I have two Brother printers at home that worked perfectly, out of the box. All I had to do was install and enable CUPS, which AFAIK should be done on a number of mainstream distros already. You really can't go wrong with Brother on Linux.
I've never had problems with Brother printers, but like you that was years ago. Nowadays I rarely print and when I do I do it from my Android on a brother laser printer
I would always go for a laser printer if possible. Also, I believe it's still possible to reset the toner on brother printers via a button combination so that they last twice as long (albeit with lower quality)
I am happy with my consumer Epson product over WiFi. Maybe https://openprinting.github.io/ is helpful.
Afaik, most of them are supported. Haven't had any problems with a printer in linux. Linux uses CUPS and CUPS is made by apple, so, I thought, most of printers are supported by it.
And you could also search for drivers on manufacturer's page, there'll be linux version.
CUPS is made by apple
IIRC CUPS started independently and then apple employed the main dev. After a few years he then left apple and forked his own project under the Linux Foundation, which is now the "proper" upstream
Samsung and HP drivers don't work very well on Linux last I heard.
Hm, I was thinking opposite about HP, because there's hplib or something like that for Linux, that is made by UP and stays in a tray. Not exactly sure, because I don't have HP printer anymore, but that was a thing like 5yrs ago
I have a HP printer and it works without a hitch in my experience
My Pantum P2500W has been seamless across many distros. Its a cheap little laser printer that costs usually sub-$100.
I have been using a few Brother printers with Linux. They worked well with USB connection and LAN (both ethernet and wifi). Same with the scanning features
Brother laser printers work great on the network.
HP printers seem to work and even have dedicated linux software, like a print manager