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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:27:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <101C109F-DD8A-469F-87C5-4158B1803206@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <584DD9C3.8070505@gmail.com>

On December 11, 2016 11:57:07 PM GMT+01:00, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2016-12-11 10:06 AM, siefke_listen@web.de wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700
>> Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every
>printer
>>> I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked
>out
>>> of the box without extra drivers.
>>
>> I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out
>blank
>> pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I
>> think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for
>> native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer.
>>
>>
>> Silvio
>
>I have an HP printer and hplip doesn't work with it, so beware...
>
>Dan

Dan,

Which HP printer do you have? I have used several in the past and never had issues with them.

One tip though, independent of brand, ink based printers may sound cheap, but I find the ink dries up long before they are supposed to be empty. Never had that problem with laser printers.

--
Joost
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-12  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 14:08 [gentoo-user] Brother Printer siefke_listen
2016-12-08 20:40 ` Daniel Frey
2016-12-09 10:19   ` siefke_listen
2016-12-09 14:07     ` Ian Bloss
2016-12-08 21:02 ` Bertram Scharpf
2016-12-09 10:16   ` siefke_listen
2016-12-09 14:20     ` Bertram Scharpf
2016-12-10  0:25   ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-12-09 15:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Nils Freydank
2016-12-10 22:17   ` siefke_listen
2016-12-10 23:45     ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2016-12-11 17:27       ` siefke_listen
2016-12-11 18:06       ` siefke_listen
2016-12-11 22:57         ` Daniel Frey
2016-12-12  4:27           ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2016-12-12  6:57             ` Daniel Frey
2016-12-12  8:55               ` Neil Bothwick
2016-12-12 10:10           ` siefke_listen
2016-12-12  4:23       ` J. Roeleveld
2016-12-12 16:36       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2016-12-11  6:23     ` [gentoo-user] " Bertram Scharpf
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-12  8:32 Mark Humphrey
2005-09-12 11:40 ` John Jolet

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