[gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[thelma]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[Miles Malone]

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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?
>
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> Thelma
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[thelma]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[karl]

That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
Why not just use postscript.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[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.
> 
> 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. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[karl]

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