From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Printer Setup
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:25:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45335E2E.7020500@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610150755.31570.bss03@volumehost.net>
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> 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.
Actually, cups drivers are binaries, so you could just use the x86
driver on a x86_64 system. It shouldn't really be slower either.
Paul
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 2:18 [gentoo-amd64] Printer Setup sean
2006-10-11 2:51 ` Barry.SCHWARTZ
2006-10-11 2:56 ` Peter Davoust
2006-10-11 12:10 ` sean
2006-10-11 15:47 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2006-10-11 16:13 ` sean
2006-10-11 17:11 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2006-10-11 18:10 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-10-12 1:26 ` sean
2006-10-12 10:43 ` Duncan
2006-10-13 7:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-13 14:10 ` Duncan
2006-10-13 14:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-14 13:41 ` Jack Cuyler
2006-10-14 21:28 ` Duncan
2006-10-14 22:34 ` Barry.SCHWARTZ
2006-10-15 8:44 ` Duncan
2006-10-15 12:55 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-10-16 7:29 ` Duncan
2006-10-16 13:10 ` [gentoo-amd64] Brother printers and Linux (was: Printer Setup) Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-10-16 10:25 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2006-10-16 11:31 ` [gentoo-amd64] Re: Printer Setup Duncan
2006-10-16 13:14 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-10-15 20:03 ` Barry.SCHWARTZ
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