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What sort of problems do you have with the 32bit drivers (beyond "I don't like it")?
by calcifer 6y ago
What sort of problems do you have with the 32bit drivers (beyond "I don't like it")?
- boplicity 6y agoI haven't thought about drivers in a long time. It "just works" on MacOS.
- syntheticnature 6y agoI think you meant to reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25010133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25010133
- calcifer 6y agoIndeed I did, thanks.
- chongli 6y ago32-bit drivers? Most laser printer drivers are just a PPD file. You don’t need to install any executables or whatever. Heck, on a lot of printers you can just use Bonjour printing without installing any drivers at all!
- wolfgang42 6y agoThe cheaper Brother printers don’t have a PostScript engine, so you need a “driver” (really a CUPS filter) to rasterize the image and prepend the appropriate PCL commands. In the official Linux driver package, at least for my printer, this comes in the form of a rather complicated shell script that hooks together some binary blobs, and if you don’t have all the right 32-bit support libraries it just mysteriously fails to produce any output while CUPS reports that the print job completed successfully. Fortunately someone has made an open-source equivalent which is much less complicated and seems to work just fine.
- rational_indian 6y agoI think brlaser and brscan are the modern replacements.