[SGVLUG] My wife wants on her laptop, 14.04 abilirty to use 2 different Laser Printers - Brother MFC 8870 CDW Brother MFC L 8850 CDW . Can I do this for her ?

[Dan Kegel via SGVLUG]

I second the suggestion to avoid using third party drivers, the ones
built into ubuntu usually suffice.
See e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/513713/how-to-configure-a-network-printer-in-ubuntu-14-04

I happen to have a similar brother laser printer here, works good with
ubuntu... the only hard part is the system settings dialogs for
configuring it!

Have you managed to get one of the two printers added to her laptop yet?
- Dan

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Michael Proctor-Smith via SGVLUG
<sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
> In my experience brother has pretty good linux support, you should be able
> to use the system setting printer config to add multiple printers. If not
> supported out of the box you may have to install printer device specific
> configuration. But try just adding a printer first linux distros tend to
> already include drivers for may more devices then other OSes tend to.
>
>
> http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:10 PM, mitch Stanley via SGVLUG
> <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Using Ubuntu 14.04 for 2 years but still feel like a newbie. 1st time
>> w/ question.   My wife wants on her laptop, 14.04  abilirty to use 2
>> different Laser Printers -
>>
>> Brother MFC 8870 CDW
>>
>> Brother MFC L 8850 CDW
>>
>> I searched online  re . problems doing this but no hits.  Any advice
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you, Mitch
>>
>> Redlands,CA
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