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What’s the best printer in terms of no DRM/Open source (monero.town)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] DoomBot5 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, my mom has been running a fax/inkjet printer from Brother for a good part of a decade. Ink is super cheap, and it works really well. Only downside is that printer isn't networked.

[–] just_another_person 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Network print server dongle is about $40 from any one of the usual networking companies, or an RPi0w is about $15. 🖖

[–] DoomBot5 2 points 1 year ago

I ended up getting her a used network printer before those dongles existed. She's just stubborn with what she will use. Honestly, I might just buy her a replacement laser printer and toss out all the old ones at some point. She finally admitted not needing a fax anymore a couple years back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also most routers with an USB can also handle a printer