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submitted 1 year ago by Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hey, sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this (feel free to show me the way). I want to get myself a printer that can also scan. Main purpose is to not have endless sheets of paper laying around, but to scan Documents I recieve and then throwing them away so that I only have them digitally and can print stuff out only when I need them. Now I know that printers are the worst piece of hardware known to man and my needs not office-level.It doesn't have to have any more buttons or features than are needed to scan a doublesided document and print them, without clogging/eating paper, and print black and white text without complaining about being low on yellow ink.

So my question generally is: what is the most minimalist, non-bullshit printer/scanner that I could get? But since all my devices run Linux I figured I'd just ask this here. Are there any big issues I have to look out for? Brands to avoid? (i.e nvidia being a no go for a lot of linux users) Preferably

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[-] Arcturus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

EcoTank is Epson, and Canon also has a similar MegaTank line. Unfortunately Brother has no tank-based printer (that I'm aware of).

[-] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

Oh! Shit, you're right! Sorry.

That said, it worked OOTB with our Linux machines, incl scanning.

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