On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:02:51 +0100 Bertram Scharpf wrote: > I have a Brother MFC 7420. Yet, it's not connected to my > Gentoo but to a FreeBSD box. There, I completely ignored the Really on FreeBSD? Wow a few years ago I work with FreeBSD and on mailinglist they not could help to become running. That's why I going to Gentoo. > recommended drivers. I configured lpd (/etc/printcap) to > first pipe the PostScript/PDF documents through a > Ghostscript command. The only real problem was to find the > proper device driver (ljet2p). > > gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet2p -r600 -sOutputFile=- - > > Then I wrap around this a simple self-written PJL frame. > > For about 8 years, though not printing too much, I never had > any problem. > > You can have my PJL generator if you want (It's in Ruby). Yes thanks if you like to share. Silvio -- Silvio Siefke