Printer suitability - Brother HL-5270DN

[David Fletcher]

At 11:00 06/03/2007, you wrote:

>I've been using an HL-5070N for over a year.  It has performed 
>flawlessly.  Coming from Solaris where it also worked like a champ 
>using the lpd queue I set it up in Linux that same way.  One of 
>these days I'll look into using CUPS, but I hate to fix it if it ain't broke.

I've got some samba shared lpd queues to networked printers running 
on an experimental server. I can use CUPS on the desktop to prepare 
print jobs for the particular Epson and HP printers we've got, 
connecting CUPS to the print queue using smb://... Is that what 
you're doing with your Brother machine?

Dave