On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankev...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and >> net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with >> scanning or the like, though. > > > Michael, > > Are you saying that you were able to print to your brother printers by > more or less following these steps: > 1. buy a computer, install gentoo > 2. buy a brother printer, plug it into computer via usb > 3. emerge net-print/cups and net-print/foomatic-filters > 4. Visit the local cups webpage, add new printer, select "brother" > 5. print > > Notably missing from my list is a visit to brother's website (or any > other website) to download drivers/binaries/confs/etc.
More or less. The Brother printers happen to be attached to a Debian box, but the Gentoo box doesn't require any additional drivers in order to feed the content to the Debian box over IPP. (And the Debian box isn't doing any PCL->Brother or PostScript->Brother translation.) -- :wq
