<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Unrelated to the "Linux-friendly, non-abusive" matter (which other members here will no doubt deal with), my immediate thought is, it CANNOT be an inkjet device. With your infrequent printing schedule, such a device would give you endless troubles and expenses with dried-out, often unresurrectable, inkjet cartridges or nozzles. If colour is not needed, then it should be a laser device. Those are fine with infrequent printing, though with such low print volumes, you'd still have the issue that even toner does deteriorate after a few years of sitting in a cartridge.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Back to inkjet devices: You could print a handful of useless "maintenance" pages every 5 days or so to keep the cartridges and nozzles in good condition, which would result in way more
"maintenance" pages than real pages being printed over time, with a much higher cost per real page than normal.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The dot-matrix printers of the distant past didn't have the above issues. :) :)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"> <br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2">Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331<br></font></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 18:00, Glen Ditchfield <<a href="mailto:GJDitchfield@acm.org">GJDitchfield@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm looking for a color printer/scanner/copier, suitable for printing a few <br>
pages every few weeks. My current device is connected by USB to a Mac that <br>
serves as a CUPS host and runs the scanner software, and that's just fine. I <br>
look at most of the modern features being offered and rate them somewhere <br>
between "meh" and "get off my lawn" (Alexa voice-enabled printing? Seriously?) <br>
but might be willing to grant access to the local Wi-Fi.<br>
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Do you have any opinions on <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span>Linux-friendly, non-abusive devices?<br>
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