On 8/2/22 00:16, Ben Hancock wrote:
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 07:50:19 -0000 (UTC)
Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
On 2022-07-31, John Mettraux <jmettr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Brother MFC-L3770CDW wireless here.
My /etc/printcap goes:
lp:\
sd=/var/spool/lpd:lp=:rm=192.168.xxx.xxx:rp=BINARY_P1
Maybe it will help.
Also try POSTSCRIPT_P1, my MFC-J4335DW shows that as a possibility
in Network > Network > Service. (I use it with CUPS though, so I can
control quality/duplexing/etc).
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I took some time to explore the
web interface for my printer (a Brother HL-L2350DW, for those following
along at home) and discovered the BINARY_P1, POSTSCRIPT_P1, PCL_P1, and
TEXT_P1 services available. But thus far, none of them have worked for
me -- with or without passing the data through a filter, as suggested
earlier in the thread.
I did make some changes to my printcap that seemed to take me in the
direction of progress, notably to stop passing the printer host to the
`rm` option and instead try passing port@host to the `lp` option. (I
also added an /etc/hosts entry for ease). I did this after noticing that
POSTSCRIPT_P1 and the other services were listed as being available on
port 9100. So here's one test case:
pstest:\
:lp=9...@brother.sannomo.home:\
:rp=POSTSCRIPT_P1:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:mx#0:
:sh:
But no dice. When invoking `lpr filename.ps`, I consistently get a
single blank page spit out from the printer and that's it. It's more
than, well, nothing ... but it's unfortunately not printing. I also
tried just sending a text file to the printer directly with nc(1); it
showed "Receiving Data" on the printer LCD, but nothing more.
Strangely (maybe?) I had to Ctrl-C out of netcat as doing ...
$ nc brother.sannomo.home 9100 < test.txt
... just hung there.
FWIW, I do know that the printer _works_, as I can print from machines
running other OS'es via the usual ways. I don't seem to be the only one
banging my face into a wall with this. I found an old thread on
DaemonForums describing an issue with similar symptoms that was, it
seems, ultimately unresolved:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=7253
Something I haven't tried -- thought I don't know if it will make a
difference -- is connecting to the printer via WiFi Direct. This
doesn't seem to be a connection issue though. I'm on the verge of just
trying CUPS, although it seems to be much bemoaned.
Thanks again.
- Ben
Are you sure that you're feeding the printer a valid postscript file?
If there isn't something like
(TimesRoman) findfont 48 scalefont setfont 200 300 moveto (text) show
showpage
nothing happens.
geoff steckel
