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I got a Lexmark for their driverless IPP Everywhere support and it's the best zero-fuss printer I've ever owned.

Xerox doesn't have any IPP Everywhere devices, so I hope this isn't Lexmark's death knell.

I don't know what an IPP is but I bought a networked Xerox all in one, plugged it into my network and it just showed up on all my devices (mind, they're mostly Apple). So whatever they're doing, it ain't so bad.

I did have to cover the power led with black nail polish though. It was lighting up the whole room.

I use black electrical tape for those ever-more-common nuisances.

You can also get sheets of hundreds of small little black dot stickers that are perfect to use on LEDs. Some of them are thin enough to let some light through an individual one, so you can choose to dim or entirely block by adding one or 2-3...

https://www.lightdims.com/

You can get a lot of toys but if your or your significant others' cosmetic habits include black nail polish why not use it?

You can’t remove the nail polish (without likely damaging the base surface) when you want to sell or gift the device to someone else, and it doesn’t look good on non-black devices. (Even on black devices you might not like its glossiness.) Black nail polish also completely blacks out the light, whereas one might only want to reduce the brightness (which the product I linked to supports).

I don’t see myself selling a printer; most likely bring it to recycling when it dies in 10 years.

As for gifting, if they object to my aesthetic choices that can always wait for someone else to gift them one.

Well, you asked for reasons. They may not apply to you specifically.

Painting the printer in Vantablack is also an acceptable answer.

That might be the one thing more toxic than toner powder particles.

Both Lexmark and Xerox have Mopria-certified printers. Windows 11 24H2 added Mopria support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopria_Alliance

Current Xerox printers definitely do support IP, but you need Windows to configure them (the proprietary app that will connect the printer to the network only runs in Widows).

I configured the internal IP via the printer's control panel actually.

But of course, you need a printer with a control panel on it.

I got the cheapest b&w laser (i print so little that inkjet is out of the question) all in one that had ethernet (B225). It has a tiny display and some buttons. You can set it up and use it like a copy machine at the least from it.

See, that's what I'm avoiding with IPP Everywhere[1]: no configuration required.

It just magically shows up instantly as a printer on Linux. It's the best printing experience I've ever had.

[1]: https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html

I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that you're talking about a printer that is already connected to the local network? But in my case, the software was needed to connect the printer to the wifi.

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