On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:38:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 07:05:52PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother > > > > printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscript printer, and > > > > you can treat it as one. No drivers needed. > > > > > > So you can use it as an all-in-one postscript printer/scanner? > > > > You can use it as a printer. As far as I know there is no such > > thing as a "postscript scanner". > > Well, the original question (see subject line) was about all-in-one > printers, which implies more than just printing. It would be sad to see the > point of the question lost in all the back and forth. > > > The Brother all-in-ones tend to have "scan-to-network" abilities, > > though, and that doesn't require a driver -- just an internal > > FTP or SAMBA server to receive the files. My workplace has a > > bunch of these. Walk up, select Scan, select Network, and put > > your document(s) in. You get PDFs or TIFFs in your filesystem. > > That's more of a document scan feature, not so great for scanning tasks > where you want more control.
Yes. The all-in-ones are terrible at that, proprietary software or not. -dsr-
