Very Computer

Hi,

when I bought my PC I didn't imagine I'd be using a non-windows
operating system, and unfortunately I was stupid enough to buy
a printer that says FOR WINDOWS in small print under the logo.
It's a BROTHER HL-720 laser printer.  

Sure enough it doesn't seem to work with linux, but then I'm
quite new to linux, so maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Anyone know if there's any hope of using this printer with Linux ?

Thanks,

Hilary Oliver

Quote:>when I bought my PC I didn't imagine I'd be using a non-windows
>operating system, and unfortunately I was stupid enough to buy
>a printer that says FOR WINDOWS in small print under the logo.
>It's a BROTHER HL-720 laser printer.  

The best thing you could do to that printer is to put it out of its misery. It
is hopelessly retarded and grotesquely deformed, and couldn't survive in
today's society. It is just sickening to think that this kind thing can exist.

In the beginning, there was a central processing unit that controlled
everything. Then the cost went down, and processing demands went up, so
everything was given its own processor. Now we are back to the 1950's again,
where everything is controlled by a single central processor because the
manufacturers, in all their blind egotistical trips, think that we have more
processing power that we could ever use. Sorry to disappoint ya, fellers, but
the programmers are eventually going to catch up again, and there won't be a
single CPU cycle to spare, so you're going to actually have to start
developing hardware again, and stop lobotomizing it.

Quote:>Hi,

>when I bought my PC I didn't imagine I'd be using a non-windows
>operating system, and unfortunately I was stupid enough to buy
>a printer that says FOR WINDOWS in small print under the logo.
>It's a BROTHER HL-720 laser printer.  

>Sure enough it doesn't seem to work with linux, but then I'm
>quite new to linux, so maybe I'm doing something wrong...

>Anyone know if there's any hope of using this printer with Linux ?

The HL-720 is fairly recent, though, so you might still stand a chance at
a return, or at least of getting Brother's attention enough that they'd be
willing to give you a trade-in to the HL-760, which is their model in that
line that should work with Linux.  If this fails, I'd suggest selling it
and using the proceeds to buy a printer that's not so OS-centric.

FWIW, stories like yours give me hope that I'm not just being a needless
nuissance whenever I recommend that a current Windows user not buy a
Windows-only printer.  Such OS-centric hardware can be a real problem
if/when the user wants to switch OSes.

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