[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 ?

[Jan Foote via SGVLUG]

Hi Mitch,

I'm not a full on geek, and need guys like you to assist me and I go to the UCLA installfests for help when I need it. My experience with using 14.04 is that it needs to be updated.  When I did just the updates that pop up, to 16.04 it was crashie.  I did a full install of 16.04 wiping all of 14.04 into oblivion and since then everything has been fine and I haven't had a problem and no crashes at all.  

I sometimes buy units with 14.04 on them cheap as dirt and immediately do the full install of 16.04 before I start to use them.  

Just a tip since you are using 14.04 and getting ready to add printers.  It might save you some trouble down the road to do a full re-install of 16.04 and then add your printers.  

What does the rest of the group have to say about it?  
 Thank you, 
Jan
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      From: Dan Kegel via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
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 Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 3:13 PM
 Subject: Re: [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 ?
   
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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