The page-description language they use is called "BRScript" which is an unlicensed postscript. Basically throw postscript at the printers and it works.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:35 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> I have had good success with Brother printers and Linux support. They<br>
> are good at providing drivers for (almost) all of their products.<br>
><br>
> I _don't_ have a MFP from Brother (I do have a color laser printer<br>
> with networking that replaced the 10 year old Brother b/w laser<br>
> printer).<br>
<br>
</div>They do not provide working drivers for all of their models, and some of<br>
them at least are binary only. Have they started speaking any standard<br>
protocols like PS3 or PCL-XL, or are they still using their own<br>
proprietary page description language?<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
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