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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Michael Mol <mikemol <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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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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> Wow, when I go into CUPS, I do not even see brother |
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> listed. (localhost:631) on a gentoo system. |
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> this link: |
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> http://www.openprinting.org/printers |
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> did list many brother printers,but not the |
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> one I'm interested in : |
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> Brother MFC-J6710DW Inkjet |
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> What did you do to your cups to get it to show (flags?) |
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> brother printers as an option to install a brother printer? |
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> Here are my flags: |
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> Installed versions: 1.5.2-r4^t(00:11:27 09/13/12)(X acl dbus filters gnutls |
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> java jpeg ldap pam perl png python slp ssl threads tiff usb -avahi <snip> |
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> Maybe the debian system has other additional software installed |
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> besides cups? |
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Looking at dependencies, these may be relevant packages installed on |
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the debian box: |
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cups-driver-gutenprint |
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foomatic-db |
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foomatic-engine |
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So, I may be wrong about my print server not doing translation. Or |
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maybe my print server is providing IPP clients with the appropriate |
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PPD file to generate printer commands. I really don't know. My setup |
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seems to just work. |
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You might poke net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds and |
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net-print/gutenprint. Really, I'd suggest you try |
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net-print/foomatic-*; it's easier to shotgun it and reduce to a |
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minimal working set than attack it from the other direction. |
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