Success with Brother MFC-L2710DW 4 in 1

[Brian]

On Thu 24 Jan 2019 at 12:01:58 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:53 PM Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> :
> >
> > A stone-age printer.
> >
> Not sure if you meant the 2240 or its predecessor, but, while true, a
> working printer is a-ok with me.  I only ditched the older one because the
> drum gave out and the two different new ones I tried were worse.  Had to
> chuck three perfectly good toner cartridges cuz no one would buy them.  I'm
> only on #2 with this printer and I also can't find the other three I
> thought I had, but as long as it works, it's cheaper than a new one.
> 
> Stones sometimes last a long time.

I labelled the printer as such because, compared to the printers which
are available now, it has far few facilities to present to a user in
the context of a modern Linux distribution. That does not mean it cannot
continue do its job.

It was also a reaction to the responses to the OP's post, which straight
away leap into the "install the Brother drivers....." routine. Things
have changed considerably in the last few years. Drivers are not needed
for modern printers. In fact, CUPS will cease to support drivers a few
years from now.

-- 
Brian.