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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by mcv on Sunday August 01, 2021 @03:43AM (#28024557)
I have a Samsung printer, but support for that also switched to HP a number of years ago.

I would really like to know if there's a good printer manufacturer that makes simple, high quality printers that just work, don't require all these needless hoops, and respect the customer. Sounds like there should be a market for that, and yet somehow all printer manufacturers seem to suck.

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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by tpxl on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:49AM (#28024843)
Isn't brother in that ballpark?
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by sgtnoodle on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:45AM (#28025596)
I have a $100 brother laser printer, and it's not too bad. It took me a while to get it working on arch Linux reliably over wifi, but that was more of an arch issue.
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by mcv on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:05AM (#28034792)
Well, my Samsung doesn't work reliably over wifi from Windows and Mac, so this issue is hardly limited to Brother and Arch.
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by sgtnoodle on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:56AM (#28096402)
Specifically, arch wasn't running any zero-conf services out of the box. CUPS would auto-detect the printer just fine, but then try to connect to it via an mDNS hostname, and the connection would fail. Once I figured that out and got mDNS working, it's been reliable.

A lot of wifi problems are due to bad/flaky access point hardware. Notably, a lot of the internet recommended "good" consumer wifi gear actually sucks from a reliability point of view. It took me months to get my home setup reliable enough to take it for granted.

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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by mcv on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:01AM (#28034761)
Brother is pretty much the only printer brand I hear good stuff about anymore. I have no experience with them yet, but when I get sick of my Samsung, I'll probably check out Brother.
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by pnutjam on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:44AM (#28025593)
Yeah, brother is my go to now. Laser b/w for less then $150. I have a color 4040 that I got a great deal on.
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Re:Why printers add secret tracking dots (2020) by hitpointdrew on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:05AM (#28025416)
Brother or Kyocera
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