On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 11:12:51 PM EST, Krichevsky, Nicholas Jacob via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

I have an HP Officejet 8600 that only gets "paused" if I unplug it, in my testing. YMMV

From: Bradley Noyes via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:07:29 AM
To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion
Cc: Bradley Noyes
Subject: [WLUG] struggling w/ reliable printers on CUPS in small office

WLug-gers,

tl;dr: Can someone recommend a printer (or printer brand) that is reliable for printing via CUPS?

I’m struggling w/ printers in a small office and i've struggled to get any kind of guidance on-line. The volume of pages printed at the office is probably around 100 pages a day and there are 4 printers — all HPs and all consumer grade — each printer has its purpose, e.g. there's an 11x17 printer, one color laser, one BW laster, one color inkjet. The office is all iMACs, which connect to a Linux CUPS server. The iMacs were networking directly w/ the printers, but i added the CUPS server to try to mitigate the poor reliability with only marginal results. Routinely printers become “paused” in CUPS so i need to go in and ‘unpause’ them, also some printers just fall of the network entirely. Inevitably the only printer that works most of the time is the ink-jet which is a lot more expensive to re-fill.

I’m looking for a reliable solution. If anyone has a recomendation that’d be great!

Thanks,
— Brad
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