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Printing Rant! Why is this so hard?
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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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Next time don't buy HP, :(.
I bought this printer years ago. It has worked fine most of the time up until now. Perhaps this is what I get for installing the latest Debian.
I had a Canon multifunction that absolutely refused to work with Linux. Who sells Linux friendly printers?
Brother printers are usually pretty good with Linux. HP ought to work with Linux just fine though, they've had Linux drivers since forever.
As mentioned by another commenter, Brother sells out of the box working on Linux printers.
I was about to say Samsung, but then I just googled and found they were bought by HP lol... So no idea.
Have you tried foo2zjs? I used to use that years ago for my old HP:
https://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_Pro_P1606dn