On giu 26 14:42, Johnny Billquist wrote: [...]
> Essentially, the implications are that through port 9100 you just talk > directly to the printer. But that still leaves figuring out what format the > printer wants data in... (For HP printers, it was/is easy, it is PCL, and > sometimes they also understand other things...) Ok, this puts a big light on why it didn't work. > Looking at the documentation, the following list of printers supports PCL6, > BR-Script3 and PDF: > > DCP-L2550DN/MFC-L2730DW/MFC-L2750DW. > > I suspect BR-Script3 is Brothers own print > handling/layout/formatting/whatever protocol [...] > It do. > Page 615. "Emulation". Thanks! I really would have never found the section where those 3 models and formats are mentioned. Mine is not between them, but at least now it's more clear what to search, and where. (Not only I didn't know what kind of data my printer supports, but also I didn't know exactly what kind of data to look for). > Yes. The printer does not understand Postscript. Ok! Apparently, only BR-Script3 as you were mentioning previously. > Your problems are twofold, I'd say. First, trying to use various daemons and > ports used by these daemons, but without the protocols, is not working. Exactly. > The closest is when you talk on port 9100. Then you have a clean connection > to the actual printer without any daemons involved. > But then you hit the problem that the printer expects a format for the > things to be printed which you are not giving it. So you are feeding it > things it don't understand. You're lucky you get nothing, You could be > getting 200 pages of gibberish as well. :-) In fact I was expecting this mess!! :) My printer seems to be gentle. Thanks for all your help. Rocky