On Tue 10 Jul 2018 at 12:53:20 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-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. > > I'm not really interested in a PostScript printer per se, but in a > printer that handles PDFs natively. Is this the same thing? > > > > 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".
The adjective refers to the printer not the scanner. So you are (in your misunderstanding) are correct. > What I would understand by the expression "postscript scanner" is > something that scans a document and yields a PDF file. I think An interesting thought. > a lot of scanners (most?) will also scan to a JPEG file. Only if the SANE frontend supports it. > > 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 the sort of thing, but I'm used to it writing the files > onto a USB stick (and prefer that). Try using a Brother aio on linux without the non-free Brother-provided brscan-skey software. If that isn't a "driver" - what is? -- Brian.
