Ditto Brother HL-2270DW. Used via Ethernet as a network/wifi
printer-its been a soldier. Use it for PCB artwork on vellum. Line
width/spacing measures out at +/- 0.5 mil. accuracy at 1:1, using
default Debian CUPS on Postscript artwork, (both Jessie and Wheezy,
gEDA.) Responds to "lpoptions -l" for 1200 dpi, etc. Notice that
transparencies are not supported.
John
Celejar writes:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 19:44:32 -0500
> Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-12-09 00:21 (UTC):
> >
> > > On Thursday 08 December 2016 23:52:21 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >
> > >> Any comments on this printer? Brother HL-L2300D Mono Laser
> >
> > >> There seems to be a .deb for an LPR and CUPSwrapper driver.
> >
> > > That was intended to have this URL in it, for the .deb:
> > > http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?&c=gb&lang=en&prod=hll2300d_us_eu_as&os=128&type3=625&dlid=dlf006893_000
> >
> > No complaints about my year old Brother laser, other than a confusing web
> > site
> > WRT driver installation:
> > http://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail/1/HL5470DW/spec
>
> I've been using a Brother HL-2280DW mono laser for a couple of years or
> so. It seems to have the same arrangement Lisi's does - Brother
> supplied lpr and cupswrapper .debs. They're closed source blobs, and
> you need to accept some sort of licensing agreement, which I really
> don't like, but once you do, the thing just works (I use it with CUPS).
> It's been very reliable, rarely jams, and the print quality has
> generally been good, except for with one toner cartridge - I buy third
> party, and seem to have gotten a bad one. One of the attractions of
> Brother lasers is that third party consumables are really cheap - at
> least here in the USA, TN-450 compatible cartridge, rated for 2000
> copies, frequently go on sale for about $10-$11 US.
>
> The D models are auto-duplex, which I really like, and the feature has
> always worked flawlessly. My W model is wireless, and I currently use
> it via my WiFi network, which works perfectly. I previously used it via
> ethernet, which also worked perfectly.
>
> Celejar
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