Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have.
> >
> > Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers for
> > all versions of Windows? In my experience, you have to throw things away
> > when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that version.
> > After you have scoured the Internet.
> >
>
> i have both xp and win 7.
>
> printer is a dcp-8110dn.
>
> my problem under linux is NOT the driver. as i said, brother actually
> has a cups/driver package for linux - but i found it to be broken and
> doing weird set-up things.
What is this "driver" you are talking about? Does it have a location and
a name on your machine? Is it provided in Debian?
If the Brother "driver" is broken then surely you know who to contact?
> so i used the cups driver, i can't remember what driver specifically,
> and all was well after a considerable amount of effort.
cups provides few "drivers". Which one did you use? It should be on your
system if you are using it.
> it's actually getting CUPS to work that's my problem, not the driver
> under cups. i think people are assuming i'm having a driver problem
> when i'm actually having a getting cups to work problem.
Ah. It's not the "driver"? It's the scheduler which is misbehaving, In
what way?
> now, last time i tried to set it up was about 2 years ago. maybe
> things are better now, hence the reason i should try again. but my
> experience last time was so miserable i keep procrastinating.
What "things" could be better?
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