Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting printing to work using lpr(1) and a
Brother wireless printer[1] that should support it. This seems to
be a perennial topic on the list, but despite trying what I've found
in the archives, I'm stumped.
Here's my /etc/printcap:
lp|brother:\
:rm=192.168.xxx.xx
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:10:08 +0900
John Mettraux wrote:
> Brother MFC-L3770CDW wireless here.
>
> My /etc/printcap goes:
>
> lp:\
> sd=/var/spool/lpd:lp=:rm=192.168.xxx.xxx:rp=BINARY_P1
>
> Maybe it will help.
Thanks very much John. I wasn't aware of the BINARY_P1 service option,
which I fou
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 07:50:19 - (UTC)
Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2022-07-31, John Mettraux wrote:
> > Brother MFC-L3770CDW wireless here.
> >
> > My /etc/printcap goes:
> >
> > lp:\
> > sd=/var/spool/lpd:lp=:rm=192.168.xxx.xxx:rp=BINARY_P1
> >
> > Maybe it will help.
>
> Also try POSTSCR
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 02:09:37 -0400
gwes wrote:
> Are you sure that you're feeding the printer a valid postscript file?
> If there isn't something like
> (TimesRoman) findfont 48 scalefont setfont 200 300 moveto (text) show
> showpage
> nothing happens.
I believe so. The two samples I've tried we
Boy, I went down the rabbit hole on this one. I'll spare the list
all the gory details, but for the sake of posterity I figured I'll
try to close the loop on this thread.
To make a long story short: After failing to get the printer working
with just regular lpr, I tried CUPS to no avail. Along the
On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 00:05:29 -0700
Ryan Freeman wrote:
> Did you happen to try CUPS with the brlaser package installed?
> I have a Brother HL-L2390DW, and once I found brlaser it just worked.
You, sir, are a saint. It works!! I can't believe I didn't manage to
find that package (((facepalm))).
So
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