Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-03 Thread perryh
Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: If you want to avoid such problems the only solution is to buy a printer with postscript or pdf support and direct network connection, that is an expensive one ... I've been using a Samsung ML-2571N for something like a couple of years now. It has a

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-03 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Brother Printer On 03/02/12 23:57, Michel Talon wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:40:21 +1000 Da Rock wrote: Are you sure its just a script? Any clue

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-03 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 04:03:52 -0800 (PST) Bill Tillman articulated: I'm just a cheap, lazy hack and when faced with a similar problem with my Brother Laser printer I opted for the cheap, lazy way out. I plugged the printer into a USB port, installed Ghostsctipt (free), made a simple printer

Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
the Brother Printer MFC-7320 and can share the way? Regards Silvio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
, there are no problems. Has someone run the Brother Printer MFC-7320 and can share the way? Unfortunately according to openprinting this printer is a paperweight :) Thats using foomatic. It may be possible to use the linuxulator to run the linux filters, but it maybe more trouble than its worth. You

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Jerry
and Gentoo, there are no problems. Has someone run the Brother Printer MFC-7320 and can share the way? I have an MFC-9560CDW that works (somewhat) but it needs CUPS installed. Even then it doesn't work with a program that does not offer an LPR print option. The fact that it works under Windows

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
Hello, On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 06:52:20 -0500 Jerry wrote: I have an MFC-9560CDW that works (somewhat) but it needs CUPS installed. Even then it doesn't work with a program that does not offer an LPR print option. I installed cups. The printer is created but also, and the Linux drivers are also

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:40:20 +1000 Da Rock wrote: On 03/02/12 21:25, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Unfortunately according to openprinting this printer is a paperweight :) Yes, but he does his service reliably and inexpensively, and my duty cycle is not small. Thats using foomatic. It may be

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
On 03/02/12 22:15, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 06:52:20 -0500 Jerry wrote: I have an MFC-9560CDW that works (somewhat) but it needs CUPS installed. Even then it doesn't work with a program that does not offer an LPR print option. I installed cups. The printer is

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:15:54 +0100 siefke_lis...@web.de articulated: On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 06:52:20 -0500 Jerry wrote: I have an MFC-9560CDW that works (somewhat) but it needs CUPS installed. Even then it doesn't work with a program that does not offer an LPR print option. I installed cups.

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Da Rock
to /usr/local/libexec/brlpdwrapperMFC730 and thats a shell scipt. Bash, its start with #! /bin/sh. Do you know what printer language it is using? This was mostly obscured on the net, but I presume GDI. Yes the printer use GDI. I have try other Brother Printer Driver, but thats most end in empty

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Michel Talon
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:40:21 +1000 Da Rock wrote: Are you sure its just a script? Any clue as to what shell it is using? Bash? I do believe there should be some binaries there somewhere as well. Yes im sure. I have a ppd File, they linked to /usr/local/libexec/brlpdwrapperMFC730 and thats a

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:29:53 +1000 Da Rock wrote: Same with most hardware- makes no sense whatsoever. But thats the ridiculous world we live in where greedy nutters rule the roost and demand every last blood soaked dollar in the twisted name of intellectual property. I'm not so sure if it