[ale] new MFP Printer needed

[Jim Kinney]

The page-description language they use is called "BRScript" which is an
unlicensed postscript. Basically throw postscript at the printers and it
works.

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:35 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I have had good success with Brother printers and Linux support. They
> > are good at providing drivers for (almost) all of their products.
> >
> > I _don't_ have a MFP from Brother (I do have a color laser printer
> > with networking that replaced the 10 year old Brother b/w laser
> > printer).
>
> They do not provide working drivers for all of their models, and some of
> them at least are binary only.  Have they started speaking any standard
> protocols like PS3 or PCL-XL, or are they still using their own
> proprietary page description language?
>
>        --- Mike
>
> --
> Even if their crude and anticompetitive business practices don't make
> you think about using their software, their use of sweatshops and child
> labor should:  boycott Microsoft like you would any other amoral child
> abuser:  http://is.gd/btW8m
>
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