[colug-432] Your return of Brother Compact Monochrome Laser...

[R P Herrold]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> Russ posted: 
> 
> > - Brother Compact Monochrome Laser...
> 
> What did you not like about it?

It surprises me to find this reply in this folder.  It appears 
that a procmail rule ran amok to have 'gated' into the COLUG 
list, that reply from Anazon.  I had 'tickled' the rule 
handing parts of that subject line as to returns to Amazon


The returned printer was a somewhat over-priced but available 
'in stock' Brother Monochrome, ethernet cable ready, and 
Duplex at Amazon.  All in, the cost was north of $200

Just now, looking, I see a like refurb unit for under $100

It was the perception of being over-priced that led me to 
return the initial unit provoking that email from Amazon

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I _like_ Brother printers.  When HP corporate direction 'went 
off the rails' after the LJ4 series, I studied several as well 
as my needs (no color needed, light duty cycle, LPR capable)

The toner media is affordable, as are replacement fuser units.  
The ones I have bought have not been 'vendor locked' with DRM 
chips and such.  They have a set of CUPS drivers which meet my 
needs on all three major OS platforms.  They have a set of 
wireless capabilities which simply work, again in all three.  
In point of fact, I have purchased several for holiday gifts 
for all downstream children

There was a SELinux exception produced by one, which was 
solveable locally by a simple labelling of the destination 
directory with 'restorecon'

-- Russ herrold