Brother HL-L2340DW -

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 04:02:48PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 
> On 02/04/15 15:44, g wrote:
> >yep. that is what i show with my samsung printer.:-)
> >
> >along with Fred Smith's suggestion, you should also, reply to the
> >"solution" email they sent you with your 'printers' screen and a
> >link to the brother page that shows the linux drivers for the printer.
> >
> >if it where me, i would also write the pres and board of directors of
> >brother and inform them of same.
> >
> >if nothing else, you would be showing just what kind of screwed
> >state of affairs the company it in.;-)
> >
> >also, when you get other printer working and return the hl-l2340dw
> >printer, send pres and head of board a copy of your return for credit
> >receipt. be sure that you have reason for return is that the printer
> >does not work with drivers supplied from brother site.;-)
> .
> 
> Well I don't know that they deserve that. They do provide Linux
> drivers for many of their printers, this one is bottom of the line
> and seems to be exactly what they specify it to be. And it does work
> using other drivers, I might not be able to do two sided printing

Just curious: have you verified that you can't do duplex printing,
or is that just a concern/fear you have? If the 'generic' driver
that is working doesn't support duplex, perhaps one of the others
does???

> but then I have never had that feature and if it was important I
> probably should buy a different model, if I return this one I will
> use it as a credit against another printer.
> 
> Bob
> 
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