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What's better is no custom software at all. Our Brother DCP-L8410CDW (colour laser, scanner, mid-size) is "driverless" in CUPS. Blew my tiny little mind. No se
by oliwarner 2y ago
What's better is no custom software at all.
Our Brother DCP-L8410CDW (colour laser, scanner, mid-size) is "driverless" in CUPS. Blew my tiny little mind. No setup, just plumb it into the network and everything can just print to it, scan from it. I've had zero problems with it in 4 years and ~ten thousand pages. I've never experienced that with another printer.
The obvious extra benefit is that Brother are generally —especially compared to HP— pretty decent about consumables.
- SushiHippie 2y agoCUPS also works without custom software for the hp printer, but I think cups is only for printing and not for scanning?
- oliwarner 2y agoIt is. This Brother scanner works (on Linux) via the airscan/eSCL protocol, ingested by SANE. Hopefully these sorts of driverless, protocol driven peripherals become widespread. And to think, it's only taken 50 years of consumer printing to start to get there.
- doubled112 2y agoApple’s AirPrint being more or less a combination of Bonjour/Avahi and driverless IPP is probably the best thing to happen to printing on Linux in recent times. Can’t hurt that they use CUPS too.