it seems it is time to change my samsung c430w network printer
I was looking and googling if these works and I also ask to you too
I would like a small network laser color printer
have you experience that these printers works?
xerox C230 DNI (ethernet and wifi connection)
Brother HL-L3220CW (only wify no ethernet)
or can you suggest a printer?
Very ironic you ask about a printer, because we used ours to scan in a document a couple hours earlier.
We have an HP LaserJet Pro MFP that we bought years ago. It can scan in color and save as PDF or as an image … but it only prints in shades of black (laser printer).
For us, a color printer is expensive (always needing to replace inks). If we need printed photographs , we go to local print store 
… or an online service.
I’m not really recommending our printer / scanner, because it has no doubt been replaced, but we only use HP printer / scanner products … they are more popular and better supported.
I am still using my old Canon MG4250 and it is a pain to get it to work on new installations, because of the old dependencies in the outdated Canon driver for it. But once it’s set up it works flawless.
That being said: From all I read about it, driverless printing is the way to go on Linux:
On this page you can also get a list of printers that support IPP Everywhere and AirPrint:
I hope that will help you to choose a printer to your needs.
So far I never had issues with scanning via WiFi with sane. I tend to use simple scan as fronted.
Yes, Brother printer/scanner devices are well supported for use with Linux. (As already mentioned, most new network-connected multifunction devices also support driverless printing and scanning, which is convenient.)
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The Brothers may work. The drivers are available on the support page.
The Xerox need a PPD provides on this support page. Manual installation only.
Epson seems not to sell laser printer like this anymore. They have only (expensive) inkjet :
Canon don’t support Linux
There is also some Lexmarks who support Linux. The lowest price is 419 €.
Lexmark is joining Xerox. For better … or worse.
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Canon provides for all of their printers/scanners linux drivers.
manythanks very useful, I found both printer I woule like and many others, the two support airprint, so, does opensuse support airprint viA WIFI??
For IPP printer discovery - If you have a firewall active on the Linux host, you’ll need to allow inbound UDP port 5353 packets (mdns in firewalld) for device discovery via Avahi.
For Scanning - As you’re using Leap 15.6, you may need to subscribe to the graphics repo to update the SANE environment (including the sane-airscan backend)…
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/15.6/graphics.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install sane-airscan
Read man sane-airscan for more info.
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I contacted a friend, they have the HP Color Laser Jet Pro MFP M180n and told me that it basically in 2 years already paid back the investment, due to not having to buy expensive ink cartridges.
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I did never use airprint functionality, but judging by these sources:
https://openprinting.github.io/cups/
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AirPrint_via_CUPS
and chapter 3.1 here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS
Airprint printers should be discovered by CUPS by default if you have the avahi-daemon.service running (which at least on my laptop is the case - I don’t remember whether it was enabled by default). As CUPS upstream seems to support it, it should be supported on openSUSE as well.
i can’t give you a confirmation from own experience though.
I am using an Epson XP-455 all in one.
Its working beautifully, even the scanning.
The last time i used a laser printer was an old HP Laserjet, we are taking years ago.
You might want to try searching for printer compatability databases like:
https://www.openprinting.org/printers
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Purchasing_a_Printer_and_Compatibility
Hope this helps, there are many links to resources out there.
Can you let us know what you go for and let us know how you get on?
Regards, Tim