Doug said the following on 01/26/2013 02:04 PM:
Very recently I have read on these lists that Brother printers were not supported. That may have changed, but some years ago I had a monochrome Brother laserjet, and Linux did not recognize it. I gave it to my grandson to do college papers on, from Windows.
Scurrilous rumours and misinformation. I got my first Brother laser printer in 1992 and it was 'cos it had a 'straight line paper path'. I was fed of the fold-and-curl of the HP Laserjet I had previously. It came with a CD and on the CD was a PPD for Linux. Are there _some_ brother models that don't have PPDs for Linux/UNIX? Possibly, but non that I've looked at in the interval. Could it be that they didn't come with such? Well quite possibly, given that many of the models use postscript or PCL. But in that case why should it matter? "Recognise"? Well, OK that machine back in the 90s wasn't 'recognised' in the sense that there was an entry in the database that came with the distribution I was using -- I think it was Mandrake. But so what? As I said, the printer handled postscript and PCL. I can tell my print driver to deal with that! -- Not all stars become black holes. Some of them become accountants. Many astrophysicists claim this is a semantic argument. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org