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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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James |