On Saturday 12 March 2016 02:50:49 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:02:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Yup, that they do. They also cost around 35,000 USD to put it on > > YOUR > > Now you're exaggerating.
No I am not. We (the tv station where I spent my last 18 working year at as the Chief Engineer) needed another copier/printer about 15 years back as we were overwhelming the $17,000 model, people standing around waiting their turn, and the local office supply business sold us a Minolta that could, if you fed it the right supplies, even bind a book for you, and yes it was $35k at the time, plus of course an annual maintenance contract that was for same day service. It had everything but a coffee spigot on it. > We have an (oldish) Brother "laser" networked > printer which was quite affordable and understands pretty well PS > (well, officially it's "brotherscript" -- really!) but it works nicely > either from the whole CUPS gorilla or from a more traditional lprng > installation. > > No blobs, no frills. Only this stupid 99.9% compatible PS ripoff is > sometimes annoying, I guess if they'd left the (official or > inofficial) copy of Ghostscript just alone instead of tweaking it, > it'd be better. > > It is, fwiw a Brother HL 5170DN. Would I recommend it? Well, the > mechanical quality is what you'd expect for the price. It tends to > "decorate" its first pages with some creases. It is very low on > mem, and its RIP isn't really fast. But it has done its job for > well over seven years now. Much the same can be said for the HL3170CDW I have, its an entry level color laser. Beginning to have some smudge and streak troubles, but it has nearly 4000 pages thru it. And I just found it needs a full, pull the line cord out, powerdown reset to restore normal operation, a panel switch reboot doesn't cut it. It also needs a firmware update, but they have about 5 of them, each customised for the windows machine it takes to run the updater. But to find a winderz machine to run the updater isn't possible here as there aren't any here. 100% linux here. I've not tried our dfu utilities to see if that could work, and I'm not sure I could strip out the actual update from their windows packages. > So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off > this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of > fun at those who try to put some effort into avoiding binary > blobs. It reminds me of the poking at vegetarians "now are snails > vegetables or not?". I thought I left that behind in my teens. I very faintly recall my teen years, we were just finished with fighting WW=II then. > -- t Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>