Ideally I am looking for a printer with
- opensource - Hardware, firmware, drivers, All OS support,
- No Shenanigans like mixing up colors, wasting ink in storage, hidden codes
- Easy to maintain and repair,
- low ink cost
- No Wifi or bluetooth
Ideally I am looking for a printer with
I’ve never installed a manufacturer’s driver for my brother printer across distributions. Even live USB images can print to it with no trouble.
It just depends on the model. Some of them refuse to do anything or just dont scan for example if you dont use the official driver.
I bet it’s more complicated for those multi function machines.