Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:01 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
>
>
>> I have a Brother MFC-7460DN network laser AIO. Both printing and scanning
>> work fine, using modified ebuilds from b.g.o. Duplex printing also works
>> as expected.
>
>
> So I started looking at the drivers at the bgo overlay,
> I did fine: brother-mfc-j265w-drivers-1
>
> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#DCP-J315W
>
> Is that the drive you used?
> How will I know it works with the printer I'm looking at?
> (MFC-J6710DW )
>
> Will I have to hack an ebuild to get my specific printer to work?
> And I ended up here:
>
> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#MFC-J6710DW
>
>
> Since I did not see a specific overlay for the
> MFC-J6710DB, I did browse the brother linux drivers
> here:
>
> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html
>
> So, I guess I'm looking for advice on rolling my own hacked
> ebuild for this brother printer, or did I miss how all Brother
> printers are supported on gentoo?
>
> Looking in CUPS, I did not see


For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and
net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with
scanning or the like, though.

Isn't there a page on one of the Gentoo wikis for this? At the very
least, there's the printer compatibility database[1] at the Linux
foundation. (Apparently, that's where linuxprinting.org went.)

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro

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