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Any experience around with operating low-end Brother laser printers
from Linux?  Especially, using them as ghostscript printers?  There is
a small model called HL-720 with only 512KB internal memory that costs
about half as much as the cheapest HP laserjet.

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> Any experience around with operating low-end Brother laser printers
> from Linux?  Especially, using them as ghostscript printers?  There is
> a small model called HL-720 with only 512KB internal memory that costs
> about half as much as the cheapest HP laserjet.

Because this printer is very non-standard, though, I'd be a bit wary of
buying it; if you decide to switch to some other unsupported OS in the
future, you might see it turn magically into a boat anchor.  Better to
spend a bit more on a true PCL 5e-capable model, like the Brother HL-760,
the HP LJ 6L, or Lexmark Optra E+.

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