Re: Roll On The Paperless Office?

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:55:07 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:

> This "Add Printer" GUI utility adds a driver supplied and supported
> by the Debian Printing Team. On my laptop it will install the 64-bit
> intel driver for the Brother printer. The driver is called "brlaser
> v4" and was released in 2018. It ships with ubuntu and other popular
> distros.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. But it seems this specifically
applies to lasers only. Interesting that the 4-1 version for Debian 10
<https://packages.debian.org/buster/printer-driver-brlaser> has a
rather shorter list of supported printers than the 5-1 version
currently in Unstable
<https://packages.debian.org/sid/printer-driver-brlaser>.

> To quote from a member of the Debian Printing
> Team<https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser>:
> 
> ...most Brother printers support a standard printer language such as
> PCL or PostScript...

Which may be true, but my printing needs tend to be low-volume, maybe
averaging a page a day. That’s why I’ve been preferring inkjets.
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