Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 06:15:31PM +0000, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote:
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> > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser
> > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). ...
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> With advice from the group, I bought a Brother DCP-L2640DW driverless monochrome printer/scanner. I run the fvwm window manager and can print with lp and scan with xsane. I never installed the Brother printer, scanner, or BR-Script3 drivers.
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> So I'm mostly happy, but I can't say I really understand who's doing what. Here are three questions.
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> 3. With xscan, the scan quality is good enough for most purposes. But when I tested some fine engraving (like a dollar bill), it was less sharp than I get with my old Epson Perfection 2400 (from 2004). In both cases I asked for 300 dpi and set JPG quality as high as possible. The Brother at 600 dpi didn't match the Epson at 300 dpi. Would installing the Brother scanner driver be an improvement, or is this just a limitation of the hardware?
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I hope you tried with something other than paper money. Usually all paper
currency have some pattern (like an irregular five of a dice) embedded.
Most imaging software won't allow to process these images (in high quality)
-H
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Henning Follmann | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
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