[CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

Thu Jul 20 20:53:51 UTC 2017
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Phil Perry wrote:
>
>> On 20/07/17 07:29, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> Does a Canon MF232W work with Centos?
>
>> My guess would be no. It appears to use a proprietary built in engine
>> that
>> will need a driver and Canon don't appear to provide drivers for Linux
>> for
>> that model. I'd be very surprised if it will work.
>
> Next on the list is a Brother HL-L2360DW.
> It appears to work with linux.
> I got as far as this page:
> http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2360dw_us&os=127
> I infer that the "Driver Install Tool" will install the four listed rpms,
> probably from a script.
> Is that the way to go?
> Printer installs have given me so much joy in the past,
> that I approach them with fear and trepidation.
>
> Also, my original notes do not contain the second L in HL-L2360DW.
> Its presence here is the result of inference.
> If someone has reason to believe it an erroneous inference,
> please let me know.
>
Just as a datapoint, my cute little HP 1018 is a "winprinter", meaning
that I have to send it some data to make it work with Linux. I fire that
off whenever I wake my router up (DD-WRT forgets about it). It does work,
then.

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