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buy a Brother, or better yet a laser printer.
I'll only buy Brother printers now. The print quality is pretty good and they just work on my Linux desktop.
Right on brother!... Write on!
Even scanning over the network works on Linux on my Brother MFP. I really didn't expect that.
I got an AIO unit and the scanner even works over the network.
How hard is it to refill ink cartridges for Brother printers?
It's fairly easy (drill hole, inject ink with syringe, seal hole with soldering iron) but it's pretty messy. It's good to have a work area you can fuck up and latex gloves are a good idea. I don't know how to reset the chips, but I keep a set of new full cartridges separate from the ones I refill and when the dialog shows up saying the printer is out of ink (even when the refilled cartridges are nearly full) I just pop in the new carts and print one page of something, then put the refilled carts back in and they'll work for a few weeks until I have to do it again.
Well worth it financially - a set of new carts is $70 whereas $30 of raw ink + syringes will refill the carts like 10 times or so.
I can't speak for all of them, but mine is pretty easy. Their ink cartridges are expensive too, but there's really good third-party options on Amazon