On Sunday, 20 October 2019, Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker(a)doomd.net> wrote:
On 10/19/19 1:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:43:06PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 07:47, Samuel Sieb <[1]samuel(a)sieb.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The Setting>Devices>Printers says :-
>> HL-5170DN
>> Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3
>>
> I'm 99% sure that HL-5170DN is NOT A HP PRINTER, but rather a Brother
> printer.
>
> You need to get the proper installer program from the Brother website.
>
> This is correct. I have HL-5450DN. It's great. One of the best laser
printers I've ever had. Always worked well under Fedora.
My mistake dunno what I was thinking of when I wrote that !
You can find the drivers here:
https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_
ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on
Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this
go on bugzilla ?
Many thanks,
Aaron
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Independent Software Engineer and amateur Computer Scientist