On Wed 09 Mar 2016 at 15:16:20 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > > Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian: > >In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both pcl > >and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, inkjet, > >inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was surely in possession of a > >manual and would know the printer capabilities. The CUPS filter chain > >produces a file to be sent to the printer which is identified as "data", > >not PostScript or PCL. Installing the two Brother .deb files (a five > >minute job) seems to be the only way for printing to take place. > > My plan is to install the Brother drivers in a virtual machine. When that > works, I can use wireshark to see what's actually being sent to the printer, > and decide if I want to do something to make it work on the "real" machine. > Jarle
Did you go through all this to set up scanning on the device? Of course you didn't. So why not do the same with printing and not make a song and a dance about it.
