On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:28:51AM +0200, Conrad Wood wrote: > Hi, > > My trusted old mono laser has recently broken down and I am looking for > a replacement. Did anyone purchase a mono laser for linux recently? > I would like to avoid any/all binary proprietary software if possible. > Not a big fan of, for example, the brother driver stuff. Ideally it's > got network connection and I install a PPD file and bob's your uncle ;) > > On a sidenote: Old printer was a Brother printer which worked flawlessly > for 13 years. Now a gear cracked and Brother support send a replacement > gear free of charge. (unfortunately it's way too tricky for me to > replace and other gears seem worn down too). Thumbs up for brother on > that note!
All the Brother mono lasers with ethernet ports speak PostScript. You don't need a driver for them, you just tell CUPS what the IP address is and point at the PPD file -- most of which are shipped with CUPS anyway. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
