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?
EDIT: Thank you all for the feedback! It seems that generally you all have had decent experiences with Brother on Linux, depending on the distro, and that there are resources out there to help with any issues that might come up.
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!