5 Oct
2018
5 Oct
'18
8:51 p.m.
On 2018-10-05 02:19:47 Felmon Davis wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Yes, you're right about the Brother "driver," but AFAIK the only component
that's used is the PPD file which describes the printer's capabilities. The
only executable that's supplied (for my HL4150CDN, at least) is something
called 'brprintconf_hl4150cdn', which I've never (knowingly) used.
Leslie
On 2018-10-01 14:21:14 Kate Draven wrote:
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not sure what counts as a 'driver' but I have had to install some
package for Brother printers and 'firmware' for wifi (Intel).
if this is just a matter of semantics then let's not fuss.
the fact remains that for some it's not all "out of the box" or
whatever to call it.
f. As for drivers,what do you mean? I've never
had to install drivers. I
HAVE had to install them in Apple and MS. That's a nightmare. Perhaps
I'm mistunderstood (which is likely).
The only ones I know of are the video drivers (which are optional).
Leslie