* [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
@ 2020-12-01 1:16 thelma
2020-12-01 3:41 ` Miles Malone
2020-12-01 7:27 ` karl
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From: thelma @ 2020-12-01 1:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo mailing list
Is there an easy way to install printer via cupsd/browser?
The cupsd recognized my printer but doesn't list any driver. When I
tested Debian it recognized my printer and driver was available.
How did they do it?
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Thelma
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
2020-12-01 1:16 [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370 thelma
@ 2020-12-01 3:41 ` Miles Malone
2020-12-01 4:12 ` thelma
2020-12-01 7:27 ` karl
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From: Miles Malone @ 2020-12-01 3:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Install the net-print/brother-hl5370dw-bin driver from the brother printer
overlay, and then add the printer with that driver from the cups browser
interface. Generally I find the brother binary cups drivers pretty great
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 11:17, <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to install printer via cupsd/browser?
>
> The cupsd recognized my printer but doesn't list any driver. When I
> tested Debian it recognized my printer and driver was available.
> How did they do it?
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
2020-12-01 3:41 ` Miles Malone
@ 2020-12-01 4:12 ` thelma
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From: thelma @ 2020-12-01 4:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 11/30/2020 08:41 PM, Miles Malone wrote:
> Install the net-print/brother-hl5370dw-bin driver from the brother printer
> overlay, and then add the printer with that driver from the cups browser
> interface. Generally I find the brother binary cups drivers pretty great
>
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 11:17, <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to install printer via cupsd/browser?
>>
>> The cupsd recognized my printer but doesn't list any driver. When I
>> tested Debian it recognized my printer and driver was available.
>> How did they do it?
That is what I did, it worked. Another printer I have is hl-3170cdw and
there are no drivers for it but installation via rpm is easy:
Instalation instructions at:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Brother_networked_printer
check if exist if not make it:
mkdir -p /var/spool/lpd
mkdir -p /usr/lib64/cups/filter
rpm -i --nodeps hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i --nodeps hl3170cdwcupswrapper-1.1.4-0.i386.rpm
ln -s /usr/lib64/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_hl3170cdw
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/
Ps. current "rpm-4.14.2.1-r1" package is buggy (should not be used)
there is a bug-filed against it.
rpm-4.16.0 works OK
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
2020-12-01 1:16 [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370 thelma
2020-12-01 3:41 ` Miles Malone
@ 2020-12-01 7:27 ` karl
2020-12-01 19:49 ` thelma
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: karl @ 2020-12-01 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
Why not just use postscript.
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
2020-12-01 7:27 ` karl
@ 2020-12-01 19:49 ` thelma
2020-12-02 12:41 ` karl
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: thelma @ 2020-12-01 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 12/01/2020 12:27 AM, karl@aspodata.se wrote:
> That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
> Why not just use postscript.
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
How do you use it / install it on HL-5370?
When I was installing via "rpm" driver for another printer HL-3170CDW I got a warning:
lpadmin -p HL3170CDW -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/brother_hl3170cdw_printer_en.ppd
lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
2020-12-01 19:49 ` thelma
@ 2020-12-02 12:41 ` karl
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From: karl @ 2020-12-02 12:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Thelma:
> On 12/01/2020 12:27 AM, karl@aspodata.se wrote:
> > That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
> > Why not just use postscript.
...
> How do you use it / install it on HL-5370?
You don't install it on the printer, it is already there.
But if you bypass cups and send the postscript file directly to
the printer, you have to tell the the printer to always use br-scrip
emulation.
> When I was installing via "rpm" driver for another printer HL-3170CDW I got a warning:
>
> lpadmin -p HL3170CDW -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/brother_hl3170cdw_printer_en.ppd
> lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.
I don't know much about cups, but they seems to be in the middle of
something:
https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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