Hendrik: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 06:52:17PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Hendrik: > > ... > > > DeviceURI > > > dnssd://Brother%20HL-3170CDW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-30055c5516df > > From what I can see: > > https://www.brother-usa.com/products/hl3170cdw > > > > that printer supports BR-script which is a postscript clone. > > Why not set it to BR-script mode on the front panel, run plain old > > lpr and be done with it. And tell your programs to always output > > postscript. > > lpr is what I use to print. And it ends up going through CUPS. At least, it > did last time I successfully printed. > It turns out that there are several packages that provide lpr. CUPS is one > of > them. Presumably it provided an lpr that passes everything through CUPS.
You probably have the "cups-bsd" package, plain old lpr is in the package "lpr". > I had anther machine where I did not use CUPS an spent quite a while figuring > out how to find, install, and configure the 'plain old lpr'. Abd that > involved > getting a print driver from the manufacturer. Of course, they provided an > 'installer' which had to be run as root and changed an plastered whatever it > wanted around the file system (something I don't appreciate). The point is that a postscript printers don't need a driver, so if you only uses postscript printers (that are set up as such mode), then your printcap file ends up with lines like: granat:rm=granat:sd=/var/spool/lpd/granat:rp=lp:lp=:sh:mx#0: > I no longer know how I accomplished that. But when I installed Devuan jessie > on > my new computer a few years ago, it came with CUPS and just worked. Well, that is fine, but when it don't work, it is a black box. /// Regarding driverless printing, that is what I always had it with postscript. PCL could probably work also, but there is no PCL previewer what I know of. Sending pdfs to printer usually gets me a scaled down printout. Regards, /Karl Hammar _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
