[colug-432] Your return of Brother Compact Monochrome Laser...

[Chris Punches]

Almost perfect use case.  Closed source drivers are always a problem eventually
for just those reasons.  It puts the whole user base at the mercy of the driver
provider.

Unfortunately the HL3170CDW is discontinued so not as many people would benefit
from them unless someone made a generic brother printer driver that has specs
for various drivers built in. 

-C

On Sun, 2020-10-04 at 17:41 -0400, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> I have a Brother HL3170CDW color laser printer that works great with
> Linux.  In fact, it works great because the driver was provided by
> Brother.  The only thing I had to mess around with was the fact that
> ther RPM's are intended for OS's in the RHEL6 era, so I had to find
> some older compat libraries.  But they work with CentOS 7 and 8 just
> fine.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 5:32 PM Chris Punches
> <chris.punches at silogroup.org> wrote:
> > Let's all pitch in on a collection of drivers.  The workshops to get
> > everybody
> > up to speed on writing linux drivers will benefit all, and we may end up
> > with
> > more stable drivers for it.
> > 
> > It will get us doing something Linux-related anyway.
> > 
> > -C
> > 
> > On Sun, 2020-10-04 at 17:19 -0400, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> > > Russ posted:
> > > 
> > > > - Brother Compact Monochrome Laser...
> > > 
> > > What did you not like about it?
> > > 
> > > I have low expectations of Brother stuff playing nice with Linux.
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