From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CE4138010 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C890F21C12B; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5777121C121 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjg15 with SMTP id jg15so661019bkc.40 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:45:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ockwEzJjdUUvkEpgWy+1WVZ6uT8oKV8R+vuwROOBsn0=; b=tRlglV5RhmXN41HAdvPeho+s9ieEwE2RVU5AEa6buj2N6GLwEf0sSA+OWx3DxSsBi7 /uP659KIz+jbYTRHqpubxFMu8nQibbwR+aegD5ECvsdkprxsxnSTgozswJRXUg0T2Afh pebozq7BLKgOEz4nSb+6GNV4+pal0h3ZcKVhNAqVtPGuHqQ59jb9r4hj5LNtwFoMcEyK qmft6idWNrykuHIoTBk64scPtE1UzHKWSY+5NR2a4AJfQUaL0PI9JugFnrv2PmmyN3YT NtdVcmzaB93GSLDA2DLI8Z2Ey5iZwaElFVT4Ezt2xhIbMkwVqAi2nfwRwVoPACMWyWHf wiyQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.145.85 with SMTP id c21mr1295101bkv.46.1348692308389; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.112.211 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:45:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120924140116.GA3740@syscon7.inet> <20120924233001.292c64f2@digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c229fab3-ec9d-4483-9794-8c01e7bcb1dd X-Archives-Hash: 4abd2581fe7a3e41f6f0e398748fd633 On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Michael Mol 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