On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:55:07 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:
This "Add Printer" GUI utility adds a driver supplied and supported by the Debian Printing Team. On my laptop it will install the 64-bit intel driver for the Brother printer. The driver is called "brlaser v4" and was released in 2018. It ships with ubuntu and other popular distros.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. But it seems this specifically applies to lasers only. Interesting that the 4-1 version for Debian 10 <https://packages.debian.org/buster/printer-driver-brlaser> has a rather shorter list of supported printers than the 5-1 version currently in Unstable <https://packages.debian.org/sid/printer-driver-brlaser>.
To quote from a member of the Debian Printing Team<https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser>:
...most Brother printers support a standard printer language such as PCL or PostScript...
Which may be true, but my printing needs tend to be low-volume, maybe averaging a page a day. That’s why I’ve been preferring inkjets.