On 2018.11.12 05:08, Wols Lists wrote:
On 12/11/18 08:36, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I bought an HP_Color (their spelling, not mine!) LaserJet MFP
M476dw a
> few years ago. It does duplex printing and scanning and just works.
A
> full set of toner cartridges isn't cheap, but they last well.
Looking at the front of mine, it's a Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn.
Nice beast, but a full set of cartridges costs more than the printer
did! I went for that over its cheaper brother because when I factored
in
the extra life of the starter cartridges, that seemed to cover the
extra
cost.
So far it looks good. Just two niggles - this machine is well
out-of-date so CUPS doesn't seem to know about this model, and for
some
reason I've set up scanning for three accounts successfully, but the
fourth just doesn't want to work :-(
Have you tried installing hplip? It seems to have more models covered
than the basic CUPS or even gutenprint.
Again, went for HP because they seem solid and reliable. Used to have
a
Dell, but it was a "get a free printer if you buy 3 sets of
cartridges".
Very good deal but the first one broke before it used all its
cartridges, and its replacement (fortunately, used the same
cartridges)
broke shortly after it had run through all the cartridges. So I
thought
"sod it, go for an HP with maintenance etc".
Cheers,
Wol
