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HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago

Yep, Brother rocks.

Too lazy for my usual lengthy monologue about Brother when this comes up, but works well with Linux, far more reasonable ink cost than any other brand I've tried, and the even low end 'inkvestment' model we have has really lived up to its claims regarding ink longevity. It doesn't even hassle you when you use off brand ink, but I only tried hat once since I had so little complaint about the Brother ink. You do lose ink level indication, which is annoying, but that's it, and manually checking level is also easy with this style of printer.

[-] dan@upvote.au 4 points 6 months ago

You do lose ink level indication

If you're talking about the laser printers, the toner level is available in the printer's web UI and via the network. I have mine integrated into Home Assistant.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

It has a web UI?

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes!

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I have mine integrated into Home Assistant.

Oh that's neat. How did you accomplish that?

[-] dan@upvote.au 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's a built-in integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/brother. For me, Home Assistant automatically detected the printer on the network and showed a notification in the app / on the site about a new device being found.

It provides pretty much all the data you'd want... Remaining drum life, toner level, page count, status (sleeping, idle, printing, paper jam, out of paper), and I think a few other things.