Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers? On Apr 28, 2014 11:07 AM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <h...@mimosa.com> wrote:
> | From: Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> > > | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with > | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver > recommended > | by the RH printer tool didn't work for me. > | > | I've printed to it from Centos 6.5, Fedora 19, and Fedora 20, so far. > | I've used the scanner portion only from Centos, so far, where it did > | work. > > I've used it with Fedora 18, 19, CentOS 5, and Ubuntu 12.04. > > I just installed the drivers on my Fedora 20 system, and it's not > quite working. > > First of all, I'm not sure the best way to talk over the network with > the printer. Both of these URIs seem to work: > dnssd://Brother%20DCP-7065DN._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/ > lpd://redpaper.mimosa.com > > I think that the first uses the IPP protocol and the second is using > the old UNIX "line printer daemon" protocol. Perhaps even HP's > jetdirect could be used. > > I put holes in the firewall for IPP, IPP-client > > In any case, printing works, but the settings are unreliable. > > One print job came out as if I had legal size paper loaded (so there > was extra margin on the top and the bottom was chopped). > > Another came out the single page image scrunched into a quarter of the > paper as if the software were trying to print four pages in one. > > In both cases, the settings I specified were as I wanted them, not as > the result appeared. > > I was using these drivers from the Brother site: > cupswrapperDCP7065DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm > dcp7065dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm > > BTW, I was able to get scanning to work. Mind you, I have only > scanned one page. I had to hole the firewall: > sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=54925-54926/udp > sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=54925-54926/udp > In the past, the page sizing of scanning has been somewhat unreliable. I > don't know if this is still true. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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