Hi Greggory,
:DI'm about to buy Blue Lion! Does anyone have an experience with a Brother HL-5470DW High-Speed Laser Printer?
Or used the drivers below. I hope it works I picked it up for only $26 bucks !!!...
Yeah, you can't go wrong for that price!!!
Indeed, I have been using this very printer in OS/2 for a couple of years now. What I am about to explain is specific to getting native PSCRIPT based drivers configured. I have not tried to install CUPS and compare the results.
To start off with, here are a couple of existing threads on our forum that detail the specific "issues" and fixes, so instead of a copy/paste just take a look at these:
1) Anyone successfully using Brother HL-5470dw? =>
https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,902.0.html2) How to find or extract a Postscript printer driver? =>
https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1684.0.html3) Printer advice =>
https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1554.msg15255.htmlThe following section is from my post in #3 above, where you'll also find the matching fixed-up PPD's in case you want to give the native PSCRIPT drivers a chance:
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So here are the setups I currently have in-place, all these relate to the Printer=>Properties window:
1) OUTPUT PORT (field names below match the dialog-box you will see)
LPD server = static IP I assigned to my printer
LPD printer = BINARY_P1
Port name = SLPR1
Print Timeout = 60 secs
Performance = LPRPORTD Compatible (I was never able to get the 'High Performance' setup working)
2) PRINTER DRIVER
2i => PSCRIPT
I used the IBM PSCRIPT v 30.800 driver here, but first I imported the 5470DW PPD file into that driver. This allowed me to have the various printer specific features available in the printer driver. This is also where I ran into some problems, especially around the print resolution. For example, trying to use HQ1200 always caused PSCRIPT driver to crash. So by default, I have my printer set to 1200. I simply like my high-quality print and using 600 just doesn't appeal.
2ii => PSPRINT
I also setup the PSPRINT driver, similar setups to PSCRIPT, my goal here was to find out if the changes Alex included in PSPRINT would create a better result. This, amongs other things, allows your print jobs to include fonts (support for embedded TrueType fonts) with each output.
I did not see much difference, as a result, I am using the IBM PSCRIPT driver nearly 100% of the time.
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That is my 2nd Brother printer and I have been very happy with it, even though I am forced to run in 1200 dpi and cannot use the HQ1200 (which really is not that big of a deal actually as I simply do not print big enough of a volume to start seeing a hit to the toner use. I get about 3 yrs and 6500 pages per regular TN750 toner cartridge).