[Scribus] Brother 5170ND laserprinter - worth the money?

[Jean-Jacques Sarton]

Hallo,

Sebastian R?der schrieb:
> I have a hardware question:
> 
> I have a Brother 5140 laserprinter at home that works quite OK with CUPS and 
> ghostscript-esp on Linux. However the Windows GUI for the printer driver as 
> much better on windows and offers more functions, e.g. printing n pages per 
> paper and such.

Mehrere Seite pro Blatt is eine Software funktionalit?t der Software auf
den Rechner.

> Now I wonder whether it's worth the money to replace the printer with the 
> higher modell 5170DN - with duplex funtion and print server (both very 
> usefull here for my everyday work for the university) and exspecially: 
> PostScript Level 3 support (instead of only PCL6 emu. of my current printer).
> 
> My idea is that I can drop ghostscript-eps in favor of *-apfl with a plain 
> postscript printer, use the .ppd of the printer and access all the functions 
> it offers (e.g. duplex under Linux, too). Now I would be glad if somebody 
> could tell me whether this ideas are right and whether there are good or bad 
> experiences with this printer.

Ich habe mit diesem Drucker keine Erfahrungen. Duplex und ?hnliche
feature werden bei den Drucker die dies k?nnen und die ich kenne unter
Linux unterst?tzt.


MfG,

Jean-Jacques Sarton