Hello.

I am in look of a printer that's fully linux compatible (meaning I can at least use all the printing capabilities, look at the state of the toners/cartridges, callibrate it, and all you can do under any other OS) from my linux box, mostly because it's my only box.

I don't really care if it's ink or laser, but as always I don't want to spend more money than strictly needed on consumibles.

I usually print from a couple hundreds to one thousand pages per month, depending on many things. Sometimes maybe a bit more.

It'd be fantastic if you know of a multifunction model that also has a fully working scanner, but that's secondary.

I am looking at linuxprinting.org, as I always do when I am looking for a printer, but it will take a long time to find something suitable (even if I am only lookin at the 3-penguins category, fully compatible printers). So if you have some suggestions, please, let me know.

As said, I am only interested in fully compatible printers which have an open source driver (I am bored of having to deal with updates and I don't really have the time to fix my printer each time I update something).

Thanks for reading, and for any help or info you can provide

ps. I forgot to say that it must be a network printer. I don't care whether it's wifi or wired, but it must support network printing in some way.

Seeing as you do a lot of printing, I probably would look at something like the HP Laserjet M1522 MFP. It's Black and White only, but there are similar colour models depending on your needs.

I have a not so good experience with hp printers under linux. They mostly work. The key word here is "mostly". Network printing, mostly, doesn't work with the hplip drivers.

I currently own a laserjet 2600n, and I had to resort to the foo2zjs driver, which has it's own assortment or problems, but at least will let me print to my network printer by plugging it into the router directly.

In linuxprinting.org, my 2600n is rated as "mostly working", in green text, two penguins. The m1522 is rated as "partially working", in yellow text, one penguin. So I guess I am not even going to consider this printer as a possibility, because it can only be worse than the one I already own.

Thank you nonetheless for your suggestion. It's much appreciated.

I have used HP and Kyocera printers for many years in a linux environment. The Kyocera have high purchase cost, low consumable cost, and robustly 'standards based' interfaces that work with anything. HP printers (and especially Multifunctions) require HPlip which can be a pain to get running properly but (once fully set up) gives the full gamut of functions. (and, unlike i92guboj, I have been successful with network printing) Any modern network-capable printer would be expected to be controllable through an embedded web page also, so scanning, faxing and checking ink levels does not actually require a working installation.

hplip + laserjet 2600n is a no-go, in which regards networking. Its web frontend doesn't allow anything more than configuring the printer (and most settings, truly, seem to do nothing), well, I can check the levels, that's something, but still...

In addition, it has a weird and buggy aspect, I really haven't investigated into it, but if it supported unicode, for sure it'd help. In the past, hp hardware used to be "hard", and worked well. I loved my deskjet 690c. Investing in the laserjet was a very bad move on my side. It simply doesn't pay out, even if it worked well (which it does not).

The foo2zjs driver works networked, but it doesn't provide anything besides just printing, and sometimes colors look weird.

All in all, I suspect this is just buggy hardware, and period. So I am not going to blame hplip only. I have talked to a lot of people who get very bad tones from this printer, even in windows.

Thanks so much for your suggestions. I'm still looking for options, and I will check on yours. I didn't consider kyocera before. I'll do now.

If nothing else works, I'll probably have to research on hp (as much as I currently dislike the brand) and see if I can test some model myself in some way with linux. I don't want to buy another expensive ornamental accessory for my work room.