Re: Brother MFC-7420

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

Keith Bates <kbates@pastors.com> wrote:

|> I've just bought a Brother MFC-7420 copier, fax, scanner, printer.
|>
|> Although Brother have drivers for lots of their machines there
|> doesn't seem to be one available on their site for this one.
|>
|> Does anyone have one of these connected to their computer? What
|> driver do you use?
|>
|> The machine comes with drivers for Mac OSX, which is based on linux
|> I believe. Is it possible to use them on a Debian linux box?  I
|> know it's a long shot but thought I'd ask.

I know very little about OSX and nothing at all about this printer,
but ...  It's my understanding that behind the pretty user interface,
the printer software for OSX is `just' CUPS.

So if you have a driver for this printer for OSX, that ought to mean
that you have a driver for the printer that works with CUPS. And if
you have a Debian box on which CUPS is installed, then the driver, it
seems to me, ought to work on the Debian box.

But reasoning from first principles is a dangerous business ....

Jim