On 09/15/2015 01:58 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/09/2015 21:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: [snip] > >>> Yea, I almost had mine working but I just got tired of hacking >>> away at it. It would be more straightforward to take an rpm or deb >>> package and use it. Folks have made specific models work, but, it >>> is a bit of work. >>> >>> 'eix -R brother' shows quite a few overlays (ebuilds) that cover >>> a range of brother printers, should you desire to hack that route. >> >> >> To install brother printer just follow these steps from Gentoo forum: >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html > > > > Or just don't install Brother printers. They are utter crap and why > anyone gives them desk space is beyond me. It's not like they are > expensive either, toss 'em and buy something real. > > Recent Samsung, Epson and everything supported by hplip all work great.
I had a different experience with Samsung printers. I bought one model and it had a big bold letters that it works with Linux. When I try to install printer driver, it was impossible. It came with some kind of script the relied on an old/obsolete library so it was impossible to install it. On Fedora, script installs brother printer base on Brother source web-page driver, it works perfectly. On Gentoo it is a manual/painful setup if you doing it the first time. Thelma
