Aaron Gray writes:
You can find the drivers here: <URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html? 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=onAh 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.
I'm shopping for a printer now, and that's why I'm doing my diligence, and trying to find a printer that works out of the box, without having to download something from some web site, somewhere.
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