On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:01 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >> I have a Brother MFC-7460DN network laser AIO. Both printing and scanning >> work fine, using modified ebuilds from b.g.o. Duplex printing also works >> as expected. > > > So I started looking at the drivers at the bgo overlay, > I did fine: brother-mfc-j265w-drivers-1 > > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#DCP-J315W > > Is that the drive you used? > How will I know it works with the printer I'm looking at? > (MFC-J6710DW ) > > Will I have to hack an ebuild to get my specific printer to work? > And I ended up here: > > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#MFC-J6710DW > > > Since I did not see a specific overlay for the > MFC-J6710DB, I did browse the brother linux drivers > here: > > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html > > So, I guess I'm looking for advice on rolling my own hacked > ebuild for this brother printer, or did I miss how all Brother > printers are supported on gentoo? > > Looking in CUPS, I did not see
For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with scanning or the like, though. Isn't there a page on one of the Gentoo wikis for this? At the very least, there's the printer compatibility database[1] at the Linux foundation. (Apparently, that's where linuxprinting.org went.) [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro -- :wq
