[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 09:57:09 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> The only thing I have against Brother devices is they they rarely use a
> standard PDL and thus only have drivers for the architectures Brother
> supports.
>

Yeah but they use "BRScript" which is a rename postscript. They got tired of
having to pay a license fee for an open technology that's 30+ years old just
to use the name "postscript".

> --
> Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.
> That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
> On Jan 18, 2011 9:39 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Brother makes a nice color laser that is very linux friendly. I have a
> > HL-4070CDW model. It's in cups _and_ Brother has an extensive Linux
> drivers
> > page here:
> > http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
> >
> > Toners are reasonably priced and drums are replaced separately. C=color,
> > D=duplex, W=wireless (I only use the wired network connection). It's been
> > very reliable.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
> lists at serioustechnology.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a minolta color laser that has just bitten the dust. I'd like to
> >> replace it with another color laser that is linux friendly. Suggestions
> >> would be appreciated.
> >>
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