On Wednesday 09 March 2016 13:16:20 Jarle Aase wrote: > Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian: > > In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both > > pcl and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, > > inkjet, inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was surely in > > possession of a manual and would know the printer capabilities. The > > CUPS filter chain produces a file to be sent to the printer which is > > identified as "data", not PostScript or PCL. Installing the two > > Brother .deb files (a five minute job) seems to be the only way for > > printing to take place. > > My plan is to install the Brother drivers in a virtual machine. When > that works, I can use wireshark to see what's actually being sent to the > printer, and decide if I want to do something to make it work on the > "real" machine.
I have been reading this thread a bit at a time. I am bemused. Why, if you want life simple, and Free, etc., go for an AIO, which are notoriously troublesome? Why not go for a simple Brother laser printer? (If you want Brother.) Lisi