Re: More printer (specification) advice sought

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From: James C
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:45

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On 24/07/08 07:24, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> [...]
> So I am upping the ante and looking at a Brother HL 2140 printer.  Its
> specification includes the following:
> 
> Compatibility	GDI Printer Driver for Windows 2000/ 2003srvr/ XP/ XP64/ Vista 
> Brother Laser Driver for Mac OS X 10.2.4 or greater 
> ***GDI Printer Driver for Linux***.
> 
> So what is a "GDI Printer Driver"?
> 
> And how do I persuade my version of "cups" to recognise that model?
> Will the "GDI Printer Driver" come to the party?

Googling "Brother HL 2140 printer linux driver" found this:

   http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html

which covers the HL-2140 on Debian.

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