On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 08:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Aaron Gray writes:
> You can find the drivers here:
>
> <
URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?
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c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on>https://support.brother.
> com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on
>
>
>
> Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this go
> on bugzilla ?
No, it shouldn't. Brother does not apparently release their printer drivers
as free software, or publish open specifications so that the free software
community can implement by themselves. There's nothing that Fedora can do
about that, and a Bugzilla bug will not accomplish anything.
All that Brother does is release their drivers as downloadable black boxes.
That will hopefully work on your particular Linux distribution. And even if
they work well now, there's little that guarantees that they will continue
to work the next time the kernel is updated. Or glibc. Or CUPS itself, or
any other library the printer driver depends on.
All unarguably true, nevertheless I've had a Brother Wifi All-in-one
(DCP-7055W) for over 5 years and haven't had any problems under Fedora,
both printing and scanning (using the blob driver obviously). It will
occasionally get confused if the home network goes down, but a quick
power cycle sorts it out.
poc