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Brother printers also happen to have pretty good Linux support which is amazingly rare for Japanese manufacturers (Epson and Canon never do that)

>>ekianj+(OP)
Epson and HP work fine under Linux for basic stuff, for anything more fancy, well, yes, there doesn't seem to be much Linuy support around.

>>ekianj+(OP)
I have an Epson and it works under Linux with their ESC/P drivers:

https://www.openprinting.org/driver/epson-escpr/

It is true that they don't officially provide support for these drivers, but they work fine for me and are even GPL-licensed so that they can be (and are) packaged with Debian. Printer was immediately recognized via Avahi and worked pretty much out of the box.

I must also say that I really like the new "EcoTank supertank" concept, it's way cheaper and ink lasts a long time. So it's not like all innovation is bad. I had a Brother before and it actually had quite a few issues (leaked ink like crazy, and very poor photo print quality) but admittedly, it lasted a long time.

>>hef198+Ya
HP is not a Japanese manufacturer

>>ekianj+JL
True.

>>ekianj+(OP)
Epson's Linux support for both their printers and scanners is great in my experience, although they don't provide tech support if you can't get it working. They even open sourced the Linux port of Epson Scan 2 (their scanning client software).