Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com writes: Are you saying that you were able to print to your brother printers by more or less following these steps: 1. buy a computer, install gentoo 2. buy a brother printer, plug it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-27 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Trausch m...@trausch.us wrote: I have used Lexmark lasers (mono and color) for They work with standard PostScript drivers out of the box Michael, Are you saying that you were able to print to your Lexmark laser printers by more or less following

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:01 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I have a Brother MFC-7460DN network laser AIO. Both printing and scanning work fine, using modified ebuilds from b.g.o. Duplex printing also works as expected. So I started

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with scanning or the like, though. Michael, Are you saying that you were able to print to your brother

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:01:05 + (UTC), James wrote: I have a Brother MFC-7460DN network laser AIO. Both printing and scanning work fine, using modified ebuilds from b.g.o. Duplex printing also works as expected. So I started looking at the drivers at the bgo overlay, I did fine:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with scanning or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Trausch
To add to the list of recommendations, I have used Lexmark lasers (mono and color) for a long time and been very happy with them. They work with standard PostScript drivers out of the box, with duplex support for those models that have it. Their inkjets are crap, but then again they all are; i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: More or less. Hrm. I have the same printer and I had to visit brother's website and download some kind of binary to get it working. I was hoping to emerge cups and have it just work but that was not the case for me. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, unix and bsd systems.. I just cannot find an HP printer that fits my previously described needs... I may just get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-24 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, unix and bsd systems.. Both Xerox and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 25, 2012 5:55 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have