Den 08. mars 2016 12:15, skrev Sven Arvidsson:
Do you know why these printers require binary drivers? I am asking both technically and rationally.On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 12:01 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote:Yes, you are right. That might work. Thank you!Actually, you will probably need the filter binaries too. You can install them manually too, but you will be running non-free software. Some Brother printers are covered by foomatic-db, but your particular model doesn't seem to be :(
I mean, by requiring this, Brother is exposing themselves for a maintenance nightmare as the divers needs to be kept up to date with all the supported Linux distributions, Windows versions and OS/X versions.
(I have not kept up with the printer technology in recent years. A friend and I wrote a word processor for QNX and Unix back in the early ninetieths. At that time we supported PCL and Postscript natively. So I did know this technology fairly well a long time ago).
Jarle