Re: Brother printer
- From: Peter Vollebregt <peter.vollebregt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:33:11 +0100
Dr. Deb schreef:
I bought a Brother HL2040, for various reasons, and, after a bit of playing,
got it installed using the Brother HL2060 CUPS driver, under both 9.3 and
10.0(64bit).
Sooooooooo, I contacted Brother and got an answer back within 24 hours to
the effect that the spooler had been tested with SuSe 9+ and worked for the
"9" series. I went back and asked if they were going to update the
spooler. The answer was a clear and definite "NO! We are not writing any
new drivers for Linux.
I guess that tells the Linux community which brand of printer to avoid,
doesn't it?
Deb
Yes,
I bought the HL2030 because they sold it with the stanza 'linux printer
drivers included' and then i discovered the same mess. A printerdriver
you have to download from a obscure unintelligable website and based on
lpr instead of cups.
I am so lucky that i use mandriva mstly at the moment and there it works
after a lot of fiddling and getting the correct information in the
printcap file. But for suse i also had to choose the HL2060.
Until now i was hoping for a better driver to come.....
Peter
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