Very Off Topic

[Ranjan Maitra]

Friends don't let friends shun open-source.....

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:46:52 -0500 Fred Smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:37:05PM +1100, Roger wrote:
> > A friend has windows 7 professional sp1 on a Dell Vostro, 230 32 bit
> > driving word 2007. No viruses reported, no infections, all
> > antivirusware to update.
> > Until a few days ago printed perfectly to a HL 4040CN Brother laser.
> > We have tried everything I know. Ive searched microsoft, Brother
> > Googled for errors. He has checked cables discussed with Brother who
> > acted like idiots, couldn't solve the problem.
> > Windows forums seem very unhelpful so I have to defer to the Linux
> > knowledge base.
> > 
> > Has anyone in Linuxland who is also using w7pro experienced printing
> > issues, particularly with Brother laser and worked out what caused
> > the failure.
> > Thanks, and apologies in advance for a non Linux issue.
> > Roger
> 
> No, not me.  however I have 2 brother printers at home, and my experience
> is that they work better if you use the actual brother driver, not
> the ones MS distributes with windows. I'd suggest downloading from the
> brother web site, as it may be newer than what's on the dvd/cd that came
> with the printer.
> 
> Fred
> 
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