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From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:53:42 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120927T174744-410@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+czFiCdHP0_+ws907E+PqVzrnkQ84M9kBDFSjCAZ24Haf5PFQ@mail.gmail.com

Michael Mol <mikemol <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > 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.)

Wow, when I go into CUPS, I do not even see brother
listed. (localhost:631) on a gentoo system.

this link:

http://www.openprinting.org/printers

did list many brother printers,but not the
one  I'm interested in :

Brother MFC-J6710DW Inkjet 


What did you do to your cups to get it to show (flags?)
brother printers as an option to install a brother printer?

Here are my flags:

Installed versions:  1.5.2-r4^t(00:11:27 09/13/12)(X acl dbus filters gnutls
java jpeg ldap pam perl png python slp ssl threads tiff usb -avahi <snip>

Maybe the debian system has other additional software installed
besides cups?
James




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24  0:34 [gentoo-user] OT: new printer suggestions? James
2012-09-24  0:55 ` Michael Trausch
2012-09-24 14:01 ` Joseph
2012-09-24 14:32   ` Michael Mol
2012-09-24 17:45     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-09-24 22:08       ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-24 22:50         ` Matthew Marlowe
2012-09-25  3:33           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-09-26 21:08         ` Michael Trausch
2012-09-27 19:06           ` Chris Stankevitz
2012-09-24 22:30     ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2012-09-26 16:01       ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-09-26 16:15         ` Michael Mol
2012-09-26 20:13           ` Chris Stankevitz
2012-09-26 20:45             ` Michael Mol
2012-09-27  4:59               ` Chris Stankevitz
2012-09-27 15:53               ` James [this message]
2012-09-27 16:40                 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-26 20:23         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-27 16:30       ` James
2012-09-26 20:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Thanasis

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