On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:35AM +0100, boo wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 00:47 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I installed the CUPS drivers for a Brother network printer on a Debian > > machine the other week, and it worked *perfectly* using the driver for > > the HL-1670N, even though the printer is an HL-1870N. > > I expect you're missing the foomatic-filters-ppds package:
Perhaps because it isn't part of woody. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-file search ppd | grep 1870 > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > Postscript.ppd.gz > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > hl1250.ppd.gz > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > hpijs.ppd.gz > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > lj5gray.ppd.gz > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > ljet4.ppd.gz > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > ljet4d.ppd.gz > foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N- > pxlmono.ppd.gz But I do have text/cupsomatic-ppd installed, which contains /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/HL-1670N-Postscript.ppd But for some reason it isn't finding the Brother option when selecting a printer model. It never gets around to asking about a model number. But yes, it works fine on my other Debian woody system, where I could tell it Ihave a Brother printer, and I told it the model number was 1670N, which worked. As far as I can tell, the only difference between the 1670N and the 1870N is the amount of RAM on the printer. -- hendrik > > Alternatively, http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi? > recnum=Brother-HL-1870N claims that there is a PPD on the driver CD (or > downloadable from Brother). Stuff this into /usr/share/cups/model and > restart cups. WFM. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
