My partner and I are thinking about getting a Brother laser printer for home use in the near future. How difficult is it to get a newer model working in a Linux ecosystem? Are there any specific drivers we should look into installing, if a specific driver isn’t available for the model we end up getting? Any advice for connecting it to our network?

EDIT: Thank you all for the feedback! It seems that generally you all have had decent experiences with Brother on Linux, depending on the distro, and that there are resources out there to help with any issues that might come up.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Printing with my black and white Brother laser printer “just works”. 100%. Ubuntu 20 and 22 automatically found it on my home wifi, prints to it from multiple apps. No sweat.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce
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      21 year ago

      I’m thinking about getting a Brother printer sometime myself, glad to hear that they are super good on Linux!