Re: OS/2 friendly printers

• From: Heiko Nitzsche <hn-expires-31-mar-06@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:03:44 +0100

the Brother MFC 7820n is $300 at Staples, $499.99 direct from Brother.

Believe the blurb says it is network capable. It is not a PCL printer.

http://www.brother-usa.com/MFC/mfc_detail_AREA=MFC_1&PRODUCTID=MFC7820N.aspx

says it has PCL-6 & BR-Script 3  Emulations.

 Do you know if the OS/2-Brother print driver will work for it?  If
not, be sure to have an iron clad no-questions-asked return policy,
which I don't think you'll get due to the need to open/load the toner.

I have a HL-5040 with PCL-6 and it works great using parallel and USB.
Going back to PCL-5 driver mode makes it print much faster. For WinOS/2
I use the downloadable HL-1250 driver. So it's very compatible.

The MFC-7820n has PCL-6 and PostScript 3. So it should be no problem
to use it with OS/2. The latest laserjet driver supports many Brother
printers that have most the same printer engine. The specs of the
MFC-7820n looks almost identical to my HL-5040 and so I guess it
would even work with this PCL driver.
You can also download the PPD description for the PostScript driver
and create your own driver with all functions with it. You need
a recent pscript driver package for doing this.

BUT the scanner part is not even supported by sane on Linux
and thus will not work on OS/2. For some Linux Brother seems to
provide an early sane driver.
Some of the MFC models have a nice feature that allows scanning
to a printer internal memory that can be later on accessed via
network connection as a PDF file (e.g. ftp).
Check the manual if this model supports it as well. If so I'd
ask Brother for details regarding network access.
Nevertheless you can obviously use the copier without PC.

As all functions share the same connection, it is unlikely
that fax function can be used.

If you just need a printer without the addons, have a look at
the less expensive HL-2070n which also has PCL-6 (but no PostScript),
a built-in print server, USB and parallel connection.
It's very small and so does not take much space.

I use eCS 1.15, Windows XP and Suse Linux 9.1 and never had
any problem with a PCL printer. It even works from old DOS.
.

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