BTW, I’ve had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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    My father had a Brother laser printer. It outlived him. (…Anyway. Have you ever had to do Windows tech support for family? Not always nice. Ever had to do Windows printer tech support? Hoo boy. Ever had to do Windows printer tech support when the printer is hooked through a Centronics-to-USB adapter? Uggh. …though I was kind of surprised that Windows 10 still had built in drivers for the damn thing.)

    Me, I bought a Canon laser which technically has Linux drivers but damn me if I ever got it to print more than the CUPS test page. …actually I’d rather not talk about CUPS. I have too many bad memories about it. (You can’t escape the Printer Madness just by using Linux, oh no.)

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      My father had a Brother laser printer.

      So it was an Uncle laser printer?

      (I’m sorry I’ll see myself out)

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      I always suspect printing/scanning is easier on linux because by default linux don’t have a firewall by default (also driver is always included).

      I was trying to setup a firewall on linux, the printing and scanning is as painful as windows if not worse. So now I just turn off the entire firewall if I want to print/scan. Fortunately, I rarely print or scan.