color laser printer?

William Lindley wlindley at wlindley.com
Sat Jan 25 14:45:41 MST 2020


On 1/25/20 10:03 AM, der.hans wrote:
> What model do you have?
>
> When I was looking online everything was pointing at downloading a
> proprietary tool from brother's site.
>
> I did find a package for brother printers and it lists two B/W printers.
>
This is the HL-3170cdw.  Printer works perfectly as a plain PostScript
device; or openprinting.org has a PPD for the similar 3070 which works fine:

http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-3070CW

There is a tiny wrapper program on the Brother site; it appears to only
add support for built-in fonts and set a few other PostScript options...
the installed bits (you can do this in a Docker container) are almost
entirely text and an easily viewed binary that seems just to add the
various strings.

I believe the current model, HL-L3270CDW, should work exactly the same,
although have not tested.

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