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Brother releases their PPDs under GPL! Fri 9 Dec 2005 Brother has released 35 PPD files for their BR-Script (PostScript compatible) printers under the GPL, These are now available here on linuxprinting.org and also in the CVS for the foomatic-db package. Thanks to Masatoshi Kadota and Yves van Belle from Brother.

New CUPS printing tutorial now available! Mon 14 Nov 2005 A new CUPS printing tutorial, created by Till Kamppeter is now available on the linuxprinting.org web site! The tutorial was originally created for the LinuxDays Luxembourg 2005 in the beginning of this yaer and afterwards updated and improved. Especially it was converted to HTML and PDF so that it could be presented on our web site. Not only basic things like setting up printers with CUPS and Foomatic are treated but also more advanced topics like assigning an IP address to an ethernet-connected printer or CUPS' high-availability features. Interested? Then go this way!

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