My partner and I are thinking about getting a Brother laser printer for home use in the near future. How difficult is it to get a newer model working in a Linux ecosystem? Are there any specific drivers we should look into installing, if a specific driver isn’t available for the model we end up getting? Any advice for connecting it to our network?
Brother printers are well known for working well within Linux. Personally, I have a MFC-J4335DW and it works very well with the generic IPP Everywhere driver. Depending on your distro, you may have to enable avahi-daemon yourself in order to get network printer auto-detection to work, but after that it just works. Even the scanning portion of the all-in-one works well!