Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:38:41PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 07:05:52PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother
> > > > printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscript printer, and
> > > > you can treat it as one. No drivers needed.
> > >
> > > So you can use it as an all-in-one postscript printer/scanner?
> >
> > You can use it as a printer. As far as I know there is no such
> > thing as a "postscript scanner".
>
> Well, the original question (see subject line) was about all-in-one
> printers, which implies more than just printing. It would be sad to see the
> point of the question lost in all the back and forth.
>
> > The Brother all-in-ones tend to have "scan-to-network" abilities,
> > though, and that doesn't require a driver -- just an internal
> > FTP or SAMBA server to receive the files. My workplace has a
> > bunch of these. Walk up, select Scan, select Network, and put
> > your document(s) in. You get PDFs or TIFFs in your filesystem.
>
> That's more of a document scan feature, not so great for scanning tasks
> where you want more control.
Yes. The all-in-ones are terrible at that, proprietary software
or not.
-dsr-
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