Hi! Hope this doesnt start a HUGE preference debate, but I'm taking feedback

on what some of you already know to be a "solid" not too big laser black+white,

flatbed/top scanner+copier (no top sheet feeder please, adds too much space/width)

BUT THE PAIN is always in the PRINTER drivers/software, win or linux, in my experience.

Honestly, been battling w/PDF's too long, to an old-ish Brother HL-L2395DW 3-in-1

--I'm working mostly on Linux Mint 19 (a deviant ubuntu I highly recommend for ex-win users)

--Printing most things OK. IIRC, didnt have to find Linux drivers the hard way.

--Printing PDF's gets iffy.  LibreOffice sometimes cures my blues;

       DocumentViewer is probably the worst, "evince" also iffy, etc.

Sometimes "Data received"....ends with a silent chirp,

sometimes printer panel indicates a quick reject (nothing printed) saying "Out of Memory",

BUT REALLY it's not the job == big, I think it

must be a nasty runaway/leaky PDF->driver thing, but if I

-- copy/email/send the nasty job to a win7 laptop and use AcroRead, USUALLY gets it done.

Until today when ALL seemed to fail, I'm ready to cough up a few $hundred for a better beast,

with wired ethernet+USB though I suppose it's pointless to avoid wireLESS interface as long as it does wired ethernet. Oh look! Today's impossible job just came out, from where! Losing my mind.

Budget: since not color, I could go over $300 or so, where most of the decent ones sit.

Been an HP fan for a long time, but things change, and I'm open to other solid models. Thx!