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From: karl@××××××××.se
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:41:22
Message-Id: 20201202124114.D5F2B82C54FF@turkos.aspodata.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370 by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 Thelma:
2 > On 12/01/2020 12:27 AM, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
3 > > That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
4 > > Why not just use postscript.
5 ...
6 > How do you use it / install it on HL-5370?
7
8 You don't install it on the printer, it is already there.
9 But if you bypass cups and send the postscript file directly to
10 the printer, you have to tell the the printer to always use br-scrip
11 emulation.
12
13 > When I was installing via "rpm" driver for another printer HL-3170CDW I got a warning:
14 >
15 > lpadmin -p HL3170CDW -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/brother_hl3170cdw_printer_en.ppd
16 > lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.
17
18 I don't know much about cups, but they seems to be in the middle of
19 something:
20
21 https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271
22
23 Regards,
24 /Karl Hammar