PG has helped immensely through education, recommendations and members responses. Moved from Windows to Silverblue and most recently to Secureblue. The move was easy, especially with the support of Secureblue’s website, FAQ’s and support currently on Discord. Everything is up and running, includi…

[image] dddd: Canon MF743Cdw This Printer is currently blushing hard [1] [399649-all-in-one-color-laser-printers-canon-color-imageclass-mf743cdw-10009552] But congratz on your journey and making the switch tho! :sparkling_heart::confetti_ball: sorry for not taking the time to actually p…

I recently switched to Secureblue as my daily driver after migrating through like 10+ distros in the past several years. It’s a truly incredible distro. Cannot say enough about it. I honestly feel like PG should consider switching their recommendations to more highly recommend it. I initially was a…

It is a beast of a printer and we really gets our money’s worth out of it. Needed to be sure it would work in the Linux environment. Special thanks to Amaranth on Discord for figuring out how to correct the Canon driver!

Linux supports printers quite well out of the box. Depending on how far you need to go + how “bleeding edge” it is but CUPS is overall always a safe bet. :+1:t2: I had something similar, threw it out in the trash because the ink was just awful to manage and it is soooo heavy + takes so much space. …

Many people have been unsuccessful with this Canon model to work on Linux. I decided to keep trying and luckily Amaranth took a look. Turns out Canon had placed two lines in the printer driver that ended up being the problem. Removed those and the install worked. (all thanks to Amaranth that is) A…

[image] kissu: I had something similar, threw it out in the trash because the ink was just awful to manage and it is soooo heavy + takes so much space. You might want to take a look at laser printers. Seriously, you just chuck in a toner and it lasts a looong time (well, depending on how ofte…

That’s what I had. Died some day because idk, it’s a printer? :joy::woman_shrugging:t2: I’ll probably get a thermal printer next time, if anything. Also self-disappears so added privacy haha. I know it’s forbidden for official documents etc :relieved_face:

What brand was it? Brother laser printers tend to last quite a long time without breaking. [image] kissu: I’ll probably get a thermal printer next time, if anything. I was also thinking about acquiring a thermal printer, it is a very cool concept. However, for my threat model, laser seems t…

[image] Script1743: Brother laser exactly that one, maybe I was just unlucky?

Most likely :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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