-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:02:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...] > Yup, that they do. They also cost around 35,000 USD to put it on YOUR Now you're exaggerating. We have an (oldish) Brother "laser" networked printer which was quite affordable and understands pretty well PS (well, officially it's "brotherscript" -- really!) but it works nicely either from the whole CUPS gorilla or from a more traditional lprng installation. No blobs, no frills. Only this stupid 99.9% compatible PS ripoff is sometimes annoying, I guess if they'd left the (official or inofficial) copy of Ghostscript just alone instead of tweaking it, it'd be better. It is, fwiw a Brother HL 5170DN. Would I recommend it? Well, the mechanical quality is what you'd expect for the price. It tends to "decorate" its first pages with some creases. It is very low on mem, and its RIP isn't really fast. But it has done its job for well over seven years now. So. Now I'll bite off my tongue and take my ball with me. I'm off this thread. I can't bear the overall animosity and poking of fun at those who try to put some effort into avoiding binary blobs. It reminds me of the poking at vegetarians "now are snails vegetables or not?". I thought I left that behind in my teens. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbjylkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaUYgCfQjJTQN2qNsPPKhE0VMC0xUXu n5oAn2pw1i+OQV8Z1KsbPe7XnkweQ9Wh =CQyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----