Brother 2900 for FC3
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Fri Apr 8 04:33:25 UTC 2005
Cyrus Adkisson wrote:
> I think I bought a printer without an open-source driver, a Brother
> FAX-2900. It's one of those fax/copy/laser printing things. The
> Brother Corporation makes an RPM for RedHat 9 (which is, what, 4 or 5
> years old?) but nothing else. I've tried to get them to provide source
> code for compilation on other architectures, but they apparently
> didn't listen.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Is there an open source driver for this printer that I don't know
> about
> 2. If I install the redhat 9 RPM and get the files onto my FC3
> machine, how can I get lpd to recognize whatever driver file I need to
> work.
> 3. Aside from whether or not I will be able to get this to work, can
> someone tell me how open source printer driver projects get started
> and whether I have any hope of someone writing a driver for this
> particular model (I haven't the foggiest clue how nor the time to do
> it myself).
>
The issue of a driver for Brother multifunction fax/copy/printer
machines has surfaced on the list in the past. I don't remember any
positive feedback during that earlier exchange.
Some time may lapse before you find a driver or succeed in getting one
developed. A speedier alternative may well be to replace the Brother
machine with one that clearly does have open source support or a vendor
supplied driver that works with your system. Drivers are available (and
included in Fedora Core distribution) for HP multifunction machines.
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