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Brother MFC-6550MC
 
Black & White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Partially
Recommended Driver: ljet2p (Home page, View PPD, directly download PPD)
Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler
 

Miscellaneous

Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

Comments

Prints Perfectly, just no scanning support.
Use GS 5.50. Slow under StarOffice 5.1. Works fine under WordPerfect 8 for Linux.

Brother publishes proprietary Linux drivers for CUPS and LPD for most of their laser printers and multi-function devices, including SANE drivers for the scanners. They can be downloaded free of charge on their Linux driver page.

Consumables/Refills: Toner can be replaced w/o replacing the drum

Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

 
ljet2p  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in
Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD
 

Other drivers:

 
gimp-print  (driver home page)
 
This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint
This driver is free software.
Type: CUPS Raster
 

 
gutenprint  (driver home page)
 
Top Quality Printer Drivers for inkjets, dye sublimation printers, and PCL lasers
Supplier: Gutenprint project
License: GPL (free software)
User support:Gutenprint mailing list at SourceForge (voluntary)
Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
Text:||||||||||  90Graphics:||||||||||  100System Load:Unknown
Line Art:||||||||||  90Photo:||||||||||  100Speed:||||||||||  60
 

 
omni  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in