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Default Brother Laserprinter HL-L2445DW

I am considering getting a B&W laserprinter that runs on Linux. If it works on *BSD that would be an advantage.

The Brother HL-L2445DW has an ethernet connection, and supports USB as well.
Anyone here that has experience with Brother laserprinters?

Other suggestions are welcome too
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Brother claim to have .deb packages to support that printer, the "HL-L2 Series" link is actually broken at the moment though:

https://www.brother.co.uk/support/hl...aq00100713_000

This thread suggests a patch is also needed for the .deb:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=421135

The OP got it working though.

I have no experience of printers myself though, Ive never owned one.
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From what I*undestand all Linux and BSD users should go for a Mopria certified product because they are well supported on Linux.

I got this info from this guy who is a free software supporter and bought a Brother printer certified Mopria:

https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php...er-dcp-l2530dw

He documented is issues with printers and settled on Brother who delivers no-nonsense printers.
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I have an HL-5450DN which has been a reliable work horse and have set up older HL-2270DW's for neighbors. The only problem I had with mine is that the fuser pulls alot of amps when warming up and it would trip my cheap surge suppressor - moving it to it's own outlet solved that problem.

The HL-L2445DW uses gdi print emulation
Listed in the brochure at brother.au which I'm having trouble linking to.

and there is a 3rd party driver github/brlaser that works with ghostscript for many of brother's gdi printers. FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Debian all provide the brlaser package.
I did a quick search (brlaser + HL-L2445DW) and did not get any hits - you would be the initial tester. It also supports driverless printing which will not work with the older LPR print spooler. My impression is that cups supports driverless printing but I personally have not seen fit to alter my working setup to test.

The HL-L2865DW uses PCL6 which is supported by ghostscripts plxmono driver.
https://www.brother-usa.com/-/media/...ouC3k6EE_G1_px

This should work in any OS that supports ghostscript and with LPR and Cups. The HL-2270DW I set up for the neighbors used a PCL6 ppd that I generated following the instructions in print/foomatic-db-engine

My HL-5450DN uses brscript3 which is Brother's version of postscript. With postscript, the printer is able to handle the print job without any preprocessing. Anything with brscript3 should work but will also be more expensive. Brother has a number of these.

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Thank al of you for your suggestions.

Onauk, thanks for pointing out Mopria. That could be handy to print something from my Lenovo Android tablet.

Shep, I will look if one that supports brscript3 is within my budget. Else it will be just PCL6. That worked fine for me in the past with HP laserjets.
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The brlaser github wiki has a more complete listing of supported printers:
https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/...orted-Printers

It looks like an HL-L235xDW was supported and brother tends to be feature consistent between similar model lines. For example, the HL-2270DW was nearly the same as the HL-2170DW.

It also looks like the HL-L24xx is a new line up. Some older HL-L23xx may be around and discounted.
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I'm going to spam my own page, https://srobb.net/cliscanprint.html.
I've had good luck with Brother, and didn't even need any of their packages to get printing and scanning to work. Granted it's a different printer than I used, but I would expect it to work the same.

OpenBSD section is the second part, I think, but there's a little table of contents.
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@scottro

Your web page is the first one I have come across that seems to use the IP "everywhere" print driver. What is your take on how the new driver compares with the older *ppd based system?

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I've had good luck with Brother, and didn't even need any of their packages to get printing and scanning to work
Your printer probably has the Brother version of PostScript, brscript, I find it difficult to find which emulations (PCL6 and brscript) the Brother printers support.

I may go for a printer model with more memory. I remember getting error messages with HP printers that the page was to complex to print. The only way to prevent this was to get more memory for the printer.
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Your printer probably has the Brother version of PostScript, brscript, I find it difficult to find which emulations (PCL6 and brscript) the Brother printers support.

I may go for a printer model with more memory. I remember getting error messages with HP printers that the page was to complex to print. The only way to prevent this was to get more memory for the printer.
Emulations: I've had good luck using "Brother + Model + Specifications" as search terms. You will get multinational search hits and you're fortunate in being bilingual.

Memory: The print spooler essentially queues the print job and feeds it to the printer in chunks <= the printer's memory. You can bypass the spooler at the risk of the consequences of running out of printer memory. More memory is almost always better particularly when illustrated document creators do not make much effort to match the resolution and size of the images to match the printer resolution and page size.

Networking: Ethernet is nice - most wireless connections are b/g and nowhere near as fast as ethernet. Depending on how your network is set up, it is also nice to assign a static IP to the printer. In my LAN, anything on a NIC is static.

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To answer @shep, I don't do much printing. Usually only some documents or pdfs. For that, I have found the everywhere driver to be fine. Note that I'm note involved in any heavy duty or especially sophisticated printing.
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