On 16/09/2015 00:49, [email protected] wrote: > On 09/15/2015 01:58 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 15/09/2015 21:53, [email protected] 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.
Samsung did that once 10 years ago, and slashdot made them pay with ridicule. Samsung is a very unusual company, they take note of their mistakes and fix them very quickly. Their latest printers do not make that same stupid mistake; mine is a recent colour laser and the cheapest in the range. Doesn't even have a display or keyboard so it creates it's own ad-hoc wifi connection so you can connect and configure in a browser. Once it's on your real network, it all JustWorks(tm) and understands postscript, PCL, SPL and ipp. Drivers? What drivers? It's bog standard PCL so the generic ppds all work. None of this stupid bloody nonsense of the printer implementing a weird once-off control language that only works on one model and is a pain to set up. The value in a printer is fast, accurate printing with cost-effective inks/toners and that doesn't piss off the customer base. Samsung knows this and it's apparent in all there products for years now. Witness their Android phones > > 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. This has been explained to you several times already. Fedora takes pains to automate such things as-shipped as a convenience for their userbase. It's their contract with them and at the heart of the distro they build. Gentoo does not offer such a distro. Gentoo offers a highly customizable source-based distro where you can get what _you_ want, the price you pay is that you have to do the nice neat user-facing convenience parts yourself - things like drivers, icon themes, choice of wm and more. Gentoo has never, and never will, offer an ebuild like that brother printer by default. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
