I just read, that Brother printer drivers might be in Ubuntu 8.04. This is great news. I own a Brother Fax-1835C fax. Basically, I bought this fax from Brother and not from another vendor, because Brother made available Debian drivers for their printers on their website. Installation was a bit rough, but the printer worked with these drivers. There was even a possibility to directly send faxes from Linux, but I never tried that. Guess my disillusion, when I found out that those drivers stopped working after upgrading to Edgy. I played around with the drivers a bit, but I was not getting anywhere close to a nice printout. This was due to the switch to CUPS 1.3, I guess. I do not print much, so this was not really an issue, but there one or two times since upgrading to Edgy, where I needed to print out something and I had to find a printer somewhere else. When Gutsy was released and everyone talked about their nice auto-configuration support for printers I had some hope again, but my printer was not even detected. Now all drivers are packaged for Hardy and there are even packages for Gutsy. My printer finally works. Those MOTU guys rock really hard! If you’ve got a Brother printer and use a recent Ubuntu (Gutsy or Hardy), check out the Brother driver packaging wiki page.
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