Re: HP DL-5170DN Printer not working

[Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, 20 October 2019, Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/19/19 1:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:43:06PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > >     On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 07:47, Samuel Sieb <[1]samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >    
> > >     The Setting>Devices>Printers says :-
> > >         HL-5170DN
> > >         Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3
> > I'm 99% sure that HL-5170DN is NOT A HP PRINTER, but rather a Brother
> > printer.
> >
> > You need to get the proper installer program from the Brother website.
> This is correct. I have HL-5450DN.  It's great. One of the best laser printers I've ever had. Always worked well under Fedora.

My mistake dunno what I was thinking of when I wrote that !

 

> You can find the drivers here:
>
> https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on

Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this go on bugzilla ?

Many thanks,

Aaron

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Independent Software Engineer and amateur Computer Scientist
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