but if you need a good b&w,

zou could look for a "geljet" theiy are sometimes on offer on ebay (sadly hardly to be found otherwise ooutside japan), or like a m3170/3180, but they a re a bit "bulky" and have WiFi, although if you connect via ethernet, it is supposedly disabled.
+side is the low maintenance costs, ecofriendly printing at reasonable quality, and very low cost per page.

HP?
Samsung?
Neither of them.
Long ago I trusted HP.
It was another life, another HP and I was only 23.

That I have done so for the longest time.

But a few years ago, needing a relatively decent B&W printer in very short order and without much money to spare, I went for a new M2020W with quite a hefty discount on the regular over the counter price due to it being the last one in a shop about to close.
ie: I needed a printer that same day and the shop needed the cash which, when all was said and done, was (iirc) less than US$40.

I did not expect it to last past the job I was undertaking but here it is.
But as I did not trust HP, I never used it wirelessly, connected it to the web or updated any code.
Just plain USB.

Makes sense?

Best,

A.

Best.

R.

I run a Samsung/HP M2020W laser printer.
It has a small footprint, was on sale at 50% discount and suited me fine for my occasional printing.

It works fine with CUPS (for now) and it connects to my box via USB.
Never used (or will use) its wireless networking capability.

That said, I have lately discovered that the printer's wireless is brought up every time I turn it on.

So I went looking to see if I could find a way to set up the wireless parameters without having to install a Samsung/HP driver package which, needless to say, I do not trust: it may well brick my printer or keep me from refilling my carts.

I then found this page which had the instructions to do exactly what I wanted.

I managed to get the files, extracted the ones I needed and ran the application but I am not getting the expected results.

~/Downloads/hp_m2020w_utils/cdroot/Linux/wirelesssetup/bin64$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./wirelesssetup /dev/usb/lp1
./wirelesssetup: error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmp.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

My Devuan Daedalus has updated versions of libnetsnmp.so.10 and all the needed files are where the instructions say they should be:

~/Downloads/hp_m2020w_utils/cdroot/Linux/wirelesssetup/bin64$ ls -1
libnetsnmp.so.10.0.2
libqt-mt.so.3.0.5
libstdc++.so.5.0.7
wirelesssetup
~/Downloads/hp_m2020w_utils/cdroot/Linux/wirelesssetup/bin64$ 

This makes me think that there may be something amiss (?) with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH string before the executable is called.
ie: much in Linux in the past couple of years and the post was last updated two years ago.

Any ideas?

Best,

A.