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On 14 September 2011 at 18:35, Ken Restivo  wrote:
> That said. Is there no-one who will rid the world of printers

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> that suck, and whose cartridges cost more than the printer?

>

> (Also, works with CUPS on Linux, in such a way that it actually

> presents useful ERROR MESSAGES, instead of just unhelpfully

> blinking a light over and over with no details as to what

> exactly is wrong?)

>

> I figured I'd ask this group.

I had the same issue.  About 6 months ago I got a Brother

MFC-8480DN from Costco.  The toner cartridge it comes with is

supposed to be good for 50k pages.  The unit prints in b/w but

scans in color.  Scanning works with [X]SANE.  Scanning works

over Ethernet.  Printing can work over Ethernet or parallel port

and I think USB too.  It's also a fine copier and fax machine.
I grabbed the easy to find Brother drives free from their site.

They installed just fine.  These are brmfcfaxcups, brscan-skey,

and brscan3.  All that cooperates just fine with CUPS.  I can't

tell you about error message usefulness as I've never had one.
I have two friends who got the color version of this unit.

Neither one survived a full year, only about 11 months.  Another

friend of mine has a unit like mine, but older, that's never had

any trouble in the years he's had it.
G'luck....
--

Kevin
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