Bradley> tl;dr: Can someone recommend a printer (or printer brand) Bradley> that is reliable for printing via CUPS? In general, CUPS is pretty darn reliable. But can you post some logs from when the printer goes offline? Bradley> I’m struggling w/ printers in a small office and i've Bradley> struggled to get any kind of guidance on-line. The volume of Bradley> pages printed at the office is probably around 100 pages a Bradley> day and there are 4 printers — all HPs and all consumer grade Bradley> — each printer has its purpose, e.g. there's an 11x17 Bradley> printer, one color laser, one BW laster, one color Bradley> inkjet. The office is all iMACs, which connect to a Linux Bradley> CUPS server. The iMacs were networking directly w/ the Bradley> printers, but i added the CUPS server to try to mitigate the Bradley> poor reliability with only marginal results. So this is a key issue to me, if printing from the iMACs (which version of MacOS?) was un-reliable, then it points to a problem somewhere else. As others have said, maybe the power is bad? But have you checked your network as well? Do you have a switch or two which are dropping packets randomly? Yes, TCP should handle stuff like this, but maybe it's a wierd corruption issue somewhere? Bradley> Routinely printers become “paused” in CUPS so i need to go in Bradley> and ‘unpause’ them, also some printers just fall of the Bradley> network entirely. Inevitably the only printer that works most Bradley> of the time is the ink-jet which is a lot more expensive to Bradley> re-fill. Can you move your most used laser to the same network port/cable as the inkjet and see if that improves reliability? Bradley> I’m looking for a reliable solution. If anyone has a Bradley> recomendation that’d be great! I've got a Brother MFC-8860DN laser printer which has lasted me over 10+ years at home and been quite reliable. The only problem is that it's PostScript implementation is now getting long in the tooth. Best damn $400 printer I've ever gotten. John