Can you recommend a printer or brand? Or else enumerate all the bad ones? ;)

I like Brothers or Xeroxs, or even Epsons.

Fuji-Xerox laser mfus seem to be OK. Proper linux driver support, cups/ipp and the toner never dries.

I got one of those Epson ink tank printers which is pretty nice. Because it doesn't have (much of) a razors and blades ink model, you have to pay a significant amount of money up front however.

I went with a brother black&white laser printer a couple years ago, and never had any issue while using aftermarket toners etc. Also, the setup under Linux using CUPS was pretty straightforward.

My brother dcp-1512 laser printer/scanner is a tank and was cheaper than buying the ink for the hp inkjet it replaced. Toner costs $15 and I’ve only gone through two cartridges during the printers lifetime (6 years and counting). It works well with Linux although it has no wireless - I hooked it up to an old laptop to share the printer.

I've had good experiences with Canon's business-grade laser multifunction units (scanner/copier/printer). Everything is configurable via a web UI (no client-side software needed) and worked fine with Linux/CUPS. Since it's a laser, toner doesn't dry out and lasts a significant amount of time.

I actually have worked for HP (well one of their spinoffs) for 25 years and ditched them in favour of Brother laser printers. I and 2 of my children have the B&W MFC-L2750DW and I bought the L3750CDW color one for my Mother-in-law. They have all been great and work fine with 3rd party cartridges.

I recommend Brother Black & White lasers. (Brother seem to want the business and don't try to abuse their customers.)