<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Brother has been a good supporter of Linux over the years.<br><br>It may be a pain to install the drivers, but they do supply good instructions.<br><br>John<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">We act as though comfort and luxury<br>were the chief requirements of life,<br>when all that we need to make us happy<br>is something to be enthusiastic about.<br>—Einstein<br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 1/17/10, Bob Jonkman <i><bjonkman@sobac.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16,
255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com><br>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Recommended printer / scanner all in one combo.<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 11:33 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Chris Irwin says:<br><br>> Apparently Brother has some proprietary drivers on their website. They<br>> actually package them as .deb and .rpm files, so it should be easy to<br>> handle if you wanted to go that route. I have never even compared them<br>> as they are 32-bit and I didn't feel the need to go through the manual<br>> process for a 64-bit system just to satisfy my curiosity.<br>><br>> <a href="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html" target="_blank">http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html</a><br><br>My mileage varied...<br><br>I just installed a Brother MFC-7440N
B&W laser/scanner/fax on Ubuntu <br>Karmic. It wasn't recognized, and wouldn't work until I installed those <br>proprietary drivers. It's a fast printer, it can spit out a full tray of <br>blank paper in the time it takes to cancel a print job over the network. <br>Now it prints fine, but the scanner portion still doesn't work. <br>Fortunately, the owner currently has no interest in faxing. <br><br>I ran out of time (Saturdays are only so long), and I anticipate another <br>full-day printer wrestling session next weekend.<br><br>FWIW, the 32-bit drivers installed perfectly on 64-bit Karmic using dpkg <br>with the --force-all switch, no manual process required.<br><br><br>--Bob.<br><br><br>Bob Jonkman <<a ymailto="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" href="/mc/compose?to=bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac..com</a>> <a href="http://sobac.com/sobac/" target="_blank">http://sobac.com/sobac/</a><br>SOBAC
Microcomputer Services Voice: +1-519-669-0388<br>6 James Street, Elmira ON Canada N3B 1L5 Cel: +1-519-635-9413<br>Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting<br><br><br><br><br>Chris Irwin wrote:<br>> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 00:05 -0500, unsolicited wrote:<br>> <br>>> Nobody doing colour laser instead of inkjet?<br>>> <br>><br>> I have a Brother HL4040CDN colour laser. It is network-attached and<br>> worked out of the box with Ubuntu. It shares through all the regular<br>> Unixy methods you would expect and advertises via avahi. Adding a<br>> printer in system-config-printer automatically sees it on the network,<br>> you just need to select it and go.<br>><br>> It is a simple PCL printer and actually gets detected as a 4040CN
(the<br>> identical model minus duplex), but duplex works so I never bothered<br>> correcting the ID. Interestingly, the reference page indicates that you<br>> need to modify the 4040CN definition to have duplex work. Maybe Ubuntu<br>> handled this. Again, I don't really care why it works :)<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-4040CDN" target="_blank">http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-4040CDN</a><br>> <a href="http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-4040CN" target="_blank">http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-4040CN</a><br>><br>> I ended up adding more memory to the unit as I got out of memory errors<br>> when printing pages with graphics. I guess it uses a lot of memory<br>> translating PCL encoded graphics. Seems to work passably well now.<br>><br>> Apparently there is some sort of FTP and
POP3 mode so I can email or FTP<br>> a document to it and have it print it out automatically. Never bothered<br>> looking into it. I don't quite see the target for that functionality.<br>><br>> Apparently Brother has some proprietary drivers on their website. They<br>> actually package them as .deb and .rpm files, so it should be easy to<br>> handle if you wanted to go that route. I have never even compared them<br>> as they are 32-bit and I didn't feel the need to go through the manual<br>> process for a 64-bit system just to satisfy my curiosity.<br>><br>> <a href="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html" target="_blank">http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html</a><br>><br>> If I was to buy again, I'd pay a little extra and go for the 4050 series<br>> as it does Postscript natively. Then I apparently wouldn't need special<br>> drivers on Windows or
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