HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print
What is a good low-end laser printer or multi-function device to recommend to non-technical friends that "just works" ?  I don't like HP for the reasons mentioned in the article and other reasons (blaring WIFI-DIRECT interference from their printers in houses all around me)<p>We bought a Brother a few years ago, because it supported Google Cloud Print.  The idea was that my son, who used a Chromebook, would be able to easily print.  The problem came when the GCP worked only for a limited time, and then stopped working a few weeks after we got the printer.   I was able to set it up to work via a Linux machine and the "cloudprint" daemon, but this was supposed to be _EASY_ and it wasn't.<p>Assuming this was just a problem with GCP, I recommended a Brother to an Apple-using friend who was trying to decide between an HP and a Brother.  She uses airprint (I'm not a Mac/iPhone person, so I never tried it).  And she has the same problems with the printer just not being found as an airprint device.