Pretty much anything by Brother. They encourage self-service, have super cheap consumables, are very efficient, and have some of the best plug and play experience around.
Oh yeah, my mom has been running a fax/inkjet printer from Brother for a good part of a decade. Ink is super cheap, and it works really well. Only downside is that printer isn’t networked.
I ended up getting her a used network printer before those dongles existed. She’s just stubborn with what she will use. Honestly, I might just buy her a replacement laser printer and toss out all the old ones at some point. She finally admitted not needing a fax anymore a couple years back.
Good question.
last time I saw a thread about good printers on Riddit someone said basically any 90s model resell, or LaserJets if it should be modern.
In terms of open source / no DRM tho, no clue. Maybe they just don’t exist or you almost have to build them from scratch?
Pretty much anything by Brother. They encourage self-service, have super cheap consumables, are very efficient, and have some of the best plug and play experience around.
Brother LASER. Inkjets still suck no matter the brand.
Didn’t even know they bothered making inkjet products haha.
Oh yeah, my mom has been running a fax/inkjet printer from Brother for a good part of a decade. Ink is super cheap, and it works really well. Only downside is that printer isn’t networked.
Network print server dongle is about $40 from any one of the usual networking companies, or an RPi0w is about $15. 🖖
I ended up getting her a used network printer before those dongles existed. She’s just stubborn with what she will use. Honestly, I might just buy her a replacement laser printer and toss out all the old ones at some point. She finally admitted not needing a fax anymore a couple years back.
Also most routers with an USB can also handle a printer