Which Framework Laptop 13 model are you using? (AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series)
I am somewhat new to linux and have been trying to get my printer to work with my Framework 13. It is an 8 year old cannon printer and I think I’ve tried everything the internet tells me do. My laptop sees the printer but will not print. So I am wondering if a new printer is due, since it is 8 years old. What printer, or brand of printers, has the best linux support? I am looking to mainly print black&white, but color would be nice. Scanning would be a plus not necessary. It is for a home office.
Yeah, if you mainly print text and can live with black and white only, a Brother laser printer is a good option. I’ve had mine for probably over 10 years and it has “just worked” with laptops, phones, etc. MacOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. Pretty much just shows up on whatever device I have at the time, and I can print to it. Toner and drum replacements are a bit pricey, but they last a long time, and don’t dry up like inkjet printers do.
If you need to print color, then disregard all that, lol.
I LOVE my colour brother, with the BUILT IN new “not 10,000” drivers but a SINGLE driver model it ‘just works’ with linux no fiddling around with dpi. Mine is 32ppm but TONER IS SPENSIVE!
I’ve been using an Epson EcoTank printer which has worked really well on Arch and Ubuntu; it advertises IPP over mDNS so as soon as the printer turns on it should just work, but sometimes you have to install the driver if it’s been stubborn.
Either way, it’s been p reliable and cheap to maintain/run so far and haven’t had many printing problems yet
I’d buy a Brother laser, but I also use Canon printers just fine with LINUX.
If I had to guess, you have the wrong driver loaded. It may say “Canon” but it won’t work. On my Canon D1520 I had to change from the auto-detected LINUX driver to the manually-installed Canon driver (downloaded from their website) before it would work.
I am a system administrator; a few years ago, we switched to Mopria-compatible ones in our small/medium organization on my initiative.
I can’t recommend any specific printer, since I hate them all, but you should definitely check if a printer is Mopria-certified before making a purchase.
Yes, any IPP printer should be great and work even on ChromeOS devices. But Mopria-certified ones are the best and most versatile. They work with Linux. They work with ChromeOS. They work with Android (Print / Scan). They almost always work with iOS/macOS (like a 99.9% chance of having AirPrint). They work driverless with “protected print” on Windows. And if the scanner is certified too, it will work on all those platforms too, including Linux.
Also, that Mopria/IPP compatibility is the only option for immutable Linux distros (Fedora Silverblue, Bazzite) where you can’t just install drivers.
Did you try updating the firmware to the latest version?
One of the Samsung printers in my organization became IPP/Mopria compatible after a firmware update.