[ale] looking for a reasonably priced color laser printer

[Michael Trausch]

Maybe they've changed. Last I has any experience with them it was difficult
as hell to get one to work right on i386, and not possible at all for
PowerPC.

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That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)
On Jan 18, 2011 9:57 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Until later, Geoffrey
>> >>
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