Re: Printers

Chris Bannister <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:00:56 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <20150227100055.GD3714@tal>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 05:11:01PM +1300, worik wrote:
> On 15/01/15 15:50, Paul Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:58:45 Daniel Beer wrote:
> >> I've found the cheap Brother laser printers (HL-2140, etc.) to be really
> >> good. Supported by standard CUPS drivers (foomatic), and being lasers,
> >> there's not a whole lot that can go wrong with them.
> > yes - another vote for cheap Brother lasers
> OK.  I splashed out $80 and have a HL 1210W.
> 
> tl;dr It does not work.  The logs all say it does.  The interweb is
> silent as far as I can tell.

Yes, it's not mentioned on:
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/

Did you look there?

Have you tried any of the Brother PPD's?

The idea is to check printer compatibility *before* you purchase it. :)

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