Le 12/03/2016 08:50, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
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.
no, not for me.
there are two parts: having a hardware that just works, and for this
Brother is better than many other makes, and getting free of privative
software, which is better but harder.
By the way it's a bit of a dead way: even RMS do not ask for free
BIOS... when he could (there is work on the subject).
I remember the time where every printer was sold with a manual stating
what codes was giving what.
So working toward a free driver is a good idea, but this have to be done
with knowledgeable people, probably (no offense!) not to be found here
but in gutenprint mailing list
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
they list some brother mfc printers, so may be yours is not so far from
support, if you help
Brother MFC-6550MC brother-mfc-6550mc Brother-MFC-6550MC
Brother MFC-8300 brother-mfc-8300 Brother-MFC-8300
Brother MFC-9500 brother-mfc-9500 Brother-MFC-9500
Brother MFC-9600 brother-mfc-9600 Brother-MFC-9600
(on the printer list, the names are not by alphabetic order)
ask them (and report here, please :-)
thanks
jdd