I've managed to get my Brother HL-720 printer to work. I'm a bit
surprised because I thought it was a Windows only printer. But a
combination of pdq and a custom ghostscript file frow linuxprinting.org
did the trick.
The problem is, or was, that this only worked when I logged in as root.
On my regular account, printing would time-out because that account
didn't have access to the /dev/lp0 port. It works now because I set the
permissions to lp0 to rw-rw-rw-. Well, it works, but that doesn't seem
to be the right way to do it. Does anyone have any better suggestions?
I'm really impressed by the compatibility of Linux, BTW. I'd expected to
have to buy at least a new sound card for my el-cheapo clone
machine, and I was sure this printer would be a large paperweight as far
as Linux was concerned. Driver support is great.
John Hendrickx
