I saw this whole thread about an hour after Amazon dropped off my ET-3850
printer. Linux Mint detected it and all seems to be working fine. I had a
ET-2750 for 3+ years and it too worked fine. The only issue I ever had
with it was when printing multiple copies of a page, it would only print
one copy, but that seems to have been resolved.
*Daniel P. Stasinski*
daniel@GenericInbox.com
✞ *Jesus Is King *✞
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 7:35 PM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Well if you got yours running then your doing good. Epson told me
> themselves they don’t make drivers now for Linux. The drivers they still
> have online are very old and out of date. I took my Epson printer back
> because I couldn’t get it to work with my fedora Linux.
> I finally went with the newest all-in-one brother printer with wide
> format. And works great and they will help anyone running Linux and the
> drivers are the most up to date.
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, at 16:51, Nathan via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 3:09:17 PM CST Harold Hartley via
> PLUG-discuss
> > wrote:
> >> Brother supports Linux on all their printers. I have a all-in-one with
> fax
> >> and works great. Epson stopped supporting Linux 3 years ago.
> >>
> >
> >
> > You got anything to support this? In the past several years I have, very
> > happily, dumped my HP printers and replaced them with Epson EcoTank
> printers
> > and love them.
> >
> > So much so, that I just recently purchased their 16600 series for my
> wife's
> > Etsy business. They are fast, and flawless, as far as I can tell.
> >
> > We use all Fedora, if that makes a difference.
> > I will never again purchase anything but Epson.
> >
> > (one caveat, I use ethernet solely for my printers. I despise wifi)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022, at 12:06, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >> > Report on printer compatibility with Linux as experienced today.
> >> >
> >> > I won't bore everyone with all the details (but I will mention this
> >> > whole exercise took many hours of research, plus 2 trips to 3
> different
> >> > stores, and the purchase and return of a printer that didn't do fax
> as I
> >> > wanted), but, I was in the market for a printer to replace my HP color
> >> > laser all-in-one.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Why would I replace a really nice HP Color LaserJet? Well, it
> >> > apparently decided that it wouldn't print well any more with non-HP
> >> > carts, and buying a full set of the silly things was in the
> neighborhood
> >> > of $300 or more, IIRC. (Oh, and the HP instant ink program, which
> >> > looked like a pretty good deal, is ONLY for inkjet printers!)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > So, I figured I could spend $300 for genuine HP and HOPE it made the
> >> > printer happy, or punt and get a new printer. I went the latter
> route.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > After 'much'-ish research, I decided I'd go for a Brother Color Laser
> >> > All-In-One (we require Fax, don't ask why ;-), since Brothers are
> >> > reputed to be excellently-supported on Linux.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Found the best price anywhere (the local Staples, believe it or not!)
> >> > and was about to plunk down my card to get it when I realized it was
> >> > going to be around $750 or so for the printer ($400-ish?) and genuine
> >> > Brother carts ($350-ish - sound similar to the HP prices? yeah.).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Woah! Ouch! Hey, I'm retired now, that's kinda a shock. Back up,
> >> > regroup, decide to try out the EcoTank idea, something I'd seriously
> >> > considered in the past. Picked an Epson (ET-4800, for like $269 at -
> >> > believe it or not - WalMart (I'm skipping the first purchase which I
> had
> >> > to return - no fax)), brought it home.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Interesting setup method. I downloaded the Epson printer setup app on
> >> > to my Android. All went very well until I tried to enter my WIFI
> >> > password. (First off, it doesn't look like the ET-4800 does 5GHz
> Wifi,
> >> > only 2.4, so I had to switch my phone over to the 2.4 side. This might
> >> > be an 'issue' with more than my 4800, so beware). I tried it 4 or 5
> >> > times, never got it to work (and the app was very weird - in order to
> >> > re-enter your WiFI password you had to tell it you had done it, then
> it
> >> > would give you the 'enter password' dialog. Otherwise it was in an
> >> > infinite loop saying it couldn't see the printer yet, did you enter
> the
> >> > password correctly, did you do it right).
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, after the ink was 'charged', I went to the front panel and
> >> > connected to wifi (just fine, thank you very much, on the first try),
> >> > then suddenly the app saw it and all was well.
> >> >
> >> > My son has Apple stuff and was pretty much immediately able to print.
> >> >
> >> > I went to Epson and looked up Linux print support, downloaded the
> >> > appropriate (in my case) .deb file, installed it and the
> >> > epsonscan2-bundle, fired up my 'Printers' tool, and there it was. I
> >> > didn't even have to search/destroy um, I mean search/install.
> >> >
> >> > Select it, say print test page, immediate print success.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On my wife's Linux machine I tried running their 'epsonscan2' program
> >> > and was not impressed. It didn't find the scanner. So, I ran over to
> >> > XSane and simple-scan and both could see it with no problem. I used
> >> > XSane to scan in both BW and color, no problems. Oh, and it knew to
> let
> >> > me choose the ADF or the flatbed!
> >> >
> >> > At first I thought it didn't have extreme scan resolution, then I
> >> > fiddled in simple-scan and set it to 1200 - whoa! But very slow.
> >> >
> >> > (In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm having a weird problem getting
> >> > scanning to work on my computer, but it works perfectly on my
> wife's...)
> >> >
> >> > When I did all the above stuff with my HP (long ago in a galaxy far
> >> > away), it worked, but I seem to recall that getting the scanning to
> work
> >> > was a little more of an issue.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On the other hand, I have a much older Epson (from an even longer time
> >> > ago and an even further away galaxy!) that I did have issues with
> >> > finding and setting up, so it looks to me like Epson has improved a
> lot.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Haven't printed much yet, but so far so good.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > All the above to say that Epson's Linux support worked quite well for
> >> > me this time. Linux is Linux Mint 20.2.
> >> >
> >> > Anybody want to buy an unhappy HP Color LaserJet MFP M281cdw? ;-)
> >> >
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