On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:52:05PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >> I carelessly bought a printer/scanner that has a proprietary driver. >> It worked fine in Fedora 18 and earlier. >> It doesn't seem to work with Fedora 19. >> Not much to be done with a proprietary driver, but I'd be happy with any >> reasonable solution. >> >> The printer is a network printer. I have a CentOS 5 box that can print on >> it. I thought that my CentOS 5 box could act as a print server for my >> Fedora 19 box. >> >> I arranged that, using the respective GUI tools. >> >> It doesn't seem to work. So I think that my F19 box still needs the >> proprietary driver. I get one line of postscript printed on the page. >> >> Is there some way that I can get the F19 box to treat the CentOS >> machine's published printer as something generic, like a PostScript >> printer? >> >> Here's where Brother describes Linux support: >> <http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html> >> >> I don't seem to have SELinux issues. > > Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed) > the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say... > > We have a different model (MFC-8480DN) Brother all-in-one at work, and > using Brother's drivers I've got both the printer and scanner operating, > though I have to admit I haven't tried it on Centos 6. > > Fred > --
I have a relatively old HP printer that I found, after installing it through the printer setup, that I still had to go to the HP site and download the driver, and after completing this easy, brainless, task, voila! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
