Comments on: Ubuntu Hardy gets Brother printers drivers

By: Peteris Krisjanis

Peteris Krisjanis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:14:51 +0000

I think more interesting problem is with hardware which actually works with Ubuntu Linux, but isn’t advertised as so. For example, lot of Epson gear just works, including lot of MFP stuff.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:29:36 +0000

For most Brother printers I don’t bother with the drivers offered on their webpage, but just use the correct ppd file on the driver CD (mostly it’s something like XXXXX_2.ppd). No foreign binaries, no problems with updating/upgrading etc. and usually just works.
What I like very much about some of their networked MFCs is the possiblity to scan to an FTP or SMTP server. Together with PS3/PCL6 support it makes those machines usable with whatever OS you choose.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:52:09 +0000

Brilliant news! I’ve been advocating Brother kit since deciding on purchasing a 560CN. Great hardware, great price, great drivers!

By: jay019

jay019 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:45:42 +0000

Not sure if I would think much of Brothers drivers. I bought a P_Touch label printer because I noticed it had linux drivers on their website. Of course they never worked and I had to turn to google to find the community written drivers that worked fine.

By: jacques

jacques — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:23:52 +0000

does anyone have a clue what this means in terms of compliance with the GNU GPL?

By: eddie m.

eddie m. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:51:13 +0000

I am working on networking a Brother printer at my job actually, so this post on the Planet was very interesting to me. The installation of the driver for the MFC-9440CN model didn’t work for me (Kubuntu Hardy), it complained about certain directories not being found. But then again, I got errors about the printer’s IP not existing in Windows Vista, so we’ll see what happens the next time I go into work.

-eddie m.