I have a hardware question: I have a Brother 5140 laserprinter at home that works quite OK with CUPS and ghostscript-esp on Linux. However the Windows GUI for the printer driver as much better on windows and offers more functions, e.g. printing n pages per paper and such.
Now I wonder whether it's worth the money to replace the printer with the higher modell 5170DN - with duplex funtion and print server (both very usefull here for my everyday work for the university) and exspecially: PostScript Level 3 support (instead of only PCL6 emu. of my current printer). My idea is that I can drop ghostscript-eps in favor of *-apfl with a plain postscript printer, use the .ppd of the printer and access all the functions it offers (e.g. duplex under Linux, too). Now I would be glad if somebody could tell me whether this ideas are right and whether there are good or bad experiences with this printer. Thanks in advance, Sebastian
