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  • brlaser

    Brother laser printer driver

    • I bought a Brother HL-L2320D which at the time was the cheapest mono laser with duplexing I could find. On Windows and macOS it's fantastically uneventful, unfortunately on Linux the situation is less great. brlaser [0] does mostly work, but it seems there is a bug as some more complex documents (typically scans) won't print [1]. I ended up patching my version to reduce the size of one of the buffers [2], and haven't seen it fail since, but I doubt I've actually fixed the issue and instead just moved the threshold.

    [0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser

    [1] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/issues/79#issuecomment-7...

    [2] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-config/blob/main/overlays/brla...

  • nix-config

    • I bought a Brother HL-L2320D which at the time was the cheapest mono laser with duplexing I could find. On Windows and macOS it's fantastically uneventful, unfortunately on Linux the situation is less great. brlaser [0] does mostly work, but it seems there is a bug as some more complex documents (typically scans) won't print [1]. I ended up patching my version to reduce the size of one of the buffers [2], and haven't seen it fail since, but I doubt I've actually fixed the issue and instead just moved the threshold.

    [0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser

    [1] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/issues/79#issuecomment-7...

    [2] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-config/blob/main/overlays/brla...

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