# Message will be discarded unless file is saved From: Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com> # To:, Cc: and Bcc: support a ?single modifier: To?: exa, <m@ple> To: misc@openbsd.org Cc: jor...@geoghegan.ca Subject: Re: Attempting to use Brother DCP-L2510D printer on BSD
On 2/24/21 9:43 AM, Sylvain S wrote: > Hello, > > I see that, if I understand correctly, you have been > able to make this printer work on ArchLinux from the > officially provided RPM driver package. > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-dcp-l2510d/ > The upstream for the driver is Brother corporation. Brother drivers are not genuine open source drivers. They contain OS specific hidden binary blobs. I am not talking about firmware which is injected into the device. I am talking about OS side blob which is suppose to run on your computer. I am not familiar with the model you have. Brother manufactures great variety of printing devices many of which are PostScrit, Printer Command Language PCL6 capable, or have built in CUPS server and everything running on them. I have one of those HL-5250DN. This is my printcap file # Remote printer must use jetdirect since foomatic-rip doesn't speak LPD rp|HL-5250DN:\ :lp=9100@192.168.3.15:\ :if=/etc/foomatic-rip/script_brother.sh:\ :sh:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: predrag@oko$ more /etc/foomatic-rip/script_brother.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/a2ps -BRq --columns=1 -o - | \ /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip -P HL-5250DN --ppd /etc/foomatic-rip/direct/brother-hl-5250dn-postscript-brother.ppd Works like a charm. Cheers, Predrag > May I ask, what kind of porting work did that require ? > I have acquired this model from Brother and have not been > successful at making it work/print yet. > For reference, here is the thread on the French community forums > https://forum.openbsd.fr.eu.org/showthread.php?tid=2846 > > I also note that the printer is absent from the foomatic > database maintained by Fedora. This seems strange as a > driver package is available for their distribution format, > but perhaps I am missing something here ? > https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/extras/foomatic-db/ > > Finally, I notice from the documentation (to the mailing list's attention) : > > The Foomatic framework supports direct printing which does not rely on CUPS (nor > any spooler). > > Complete documentation can be found at: > https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/database/nospoolerdocumentation > > I would gladly do that, but am still clueless as of now > > Thanks to anyone who would help >
