David Harrison writes:
That's a mite harsh. For my ancient Brother HL5170-DN, Brother provide downloadable (sadly blob-only) deb and rpm packages. Not every printer manufacturer goes that far.
For the record: All three of the Brother printers I've bought had/have good linux support, and I'll gladly buy another. (MFC-8880DN, HL-1450 and I don't remember the oldest.) But I won't buy a non-ps printer. Those vary far too much.
I've had success adding the printer directly via the CUPS web interface too, though it pays to be very careful about *which* port, service, page control language etc is selected from the many options that appear for that model. PCL tends to work better in my limited experience, perhaps because Brother's PostScript emulation (BRScript) seems to have a few idiosyncrasies.
It's not too bad. I think it's based on ghostscript. The biggest oddness I've found (I've written a couple of printer drivers) is that the character repertoire differs from that in Adobe fonts. Both contain ASCII, but things like MS-DOS graphics drawing is another matter entirely.
Arnt PS: Postscript sweetness: http://bit.ly/1egXCAL _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
