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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Chris Stankevitz |
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<chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and |
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>> net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with |
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>> scanning or the like, though. |
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> Michael, |
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> Are you saying that you were able to print to your brother printers by |
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> more or less following these steps: |
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> 1. buy a computer, install gentoo |
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> 2. buy a brother printer, plug it into computer via usb |
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> 3. emerge net-print/cups and net-print/foomatic-filters |
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> 4. Visit the local cups webpage, add new printer, select "brother" |
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> 5. print |
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> Notably missing from my list is a visit to brother's website (or any |
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> other website) to download drivers/binaries/confs/etc. |
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More or less. The Brother printers happen to be attached to a Debian |
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box, but the Gentoo box doesn't require any additional drivers in |
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order to feed the content to the Debian box over IPP. (And the Debian |
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box isn't doing any PCL->Brother or PostScript->Brother translation.) |
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:wq |
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