Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 15:27:44 +0100, Petter Adsen wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:03:17 +0000
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:48:52 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 03:30:06 Curt wrote:
> > > > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > > Went around the bush again, turned it off in cups default,
> > > > > called up iceweasals print menu and again was denied duplex
> > > > > functions.
> > 
> > Gene - I just looked at  
> > http://www.openprinting.org/printers
> > (Why didn't I think of that before?)
> > Your printer is not in the list of Brother printers which can be
> > expected to work in Linux, and they do not provide a driver for it.
> > 
> > Will your printer work properly with a current Ubuntu Live CD? (14.10 
> > presumably)  Perhaps find a way of extracting the Ubuntu driver?
> > They have probably tweaked something.
> 
> No need :)
> 
> I have a 14.10 machine right here, and there is no driver for his
> printer there. I've checked.

Not surprising; the licence for the Brother software doesn't permit
distribution.

The lack of advice on the HL-3170CDW at openprinting is an indication
that no user of it has added any, not a judgement on whether it works
on Linux.