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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> Probably an MFC-7420, like mine, or possibly one of it's "big brothers." |
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> They have cups, lpd, and sane drivers available for x86 linux, but no |
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> support for other arches (including x86_64) last time I checked. They do |
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> have a separate cups driver that allows faxing from your desktop. |
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> As I'm on x86_64 and don't need a scanner much, I looked for other cups |
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> drivers that were available from portage and found the |
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> Brother MFC-9600 Foomatic/hl1250' driver worked fine for simple printing. |
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Actually, cups drivers are binaries, so you could just use the x86 |
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driver on a x86_64 system. It shouldn't really be slower either. |
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Paul |
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