Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Printer Setup

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

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On Sunday 15 October 2006 03:44, "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote 
about '[gentoo-amd64]  Re: Printer Setup':
> The Brother they have at work is a laser 4-way
> printer-scanner-copier-fax

Probably an MFC-7420, like mine, or possibly one of it's "big brothers."  
They have cups, lpd, and sane drivers available for x86 linux, but no 
support for other arches (including x86_64) last time I checked.  They do 
have a separate cups driver that allows faxing from your desktop.

As I'm on x86_64 and don't need a scanner much, I looked for other cups 
drivers that were available from portage and found the 
Brother MFC-9600 Foomatic/hl1250' driver worked fine for simple printing.

FWIW, I think Brother wants to be linux friendly, but haven't (for whatever 
reason) but a lot of effort behind it.

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