Re: [PLUG] printing

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

The problem is finding the correct PPD file for the printer,  as most manufactures don't publish those anymore,  they
are in fact hidden inside an excutable driver for the Mac or such.   Sometimes the ones on Linuxprinting.org
work sort-of,  but all the features may not work.    Brother PPD's are inside the deb package.

I've found that the MFC-L8840-CDW and Brother PPD on Ubuntu 16.04 even support showing current ink-levels,  so this is finally working
much better than in the past for all the features.   It was a surprise to see Brother scanning working with xsane on Ubuntu
as well as Android tablets with the Brother app.

Lee



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 11:12:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] printing

> This has always been my approach to printer for Linux.  Use a postscript
> printer.  No driver needed.  Done.
> 
> That said, I print to .pdf's more than anything else and have a image of my
> signature available if I need to "sign" something.  I even have a fax modem for
> those times where emailing can't be done.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Freeman" <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 9:30:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] printing
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Chris Norton <chris@nortoninc.info> wrote:
>> The things that bother me about printers, especially in Windows, is the
>> driver. I search for the driver only download as much as possible since I
>> don't really need 20 pieces of software just to print the occasional word
>> doc.
>>
> 
> Hence the reason I mentioned that my printer uses postfix.  You can
> just print out-of-the-box without any special drivers, or if you want
> you can go find the PPD and add that and you get a few more special
> printer options.
> 
> --
> Rich
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