Re: Configuration for Brother Printer (without CUPS)

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Christian Banik wrote:

> I've got a Brother HL - 1250 USB Laser Printer and i can't configure it 
> with CUPS. It seems, Brother Printers are not supported.
> Which installation Program (Hardware detection Program) can i use to do 
> this ?

apt-get install foomatic-bin

Then go to linuxprinting.org, find the foomatic database, and generate a
ppd file for your printer (it's there, I just did it).

Then save that file to /usr/share/cups/model/<filename>

where <filename> is the name of the file, AS SUGGESTED at the top of the
file.

Then fire up your web interface to CUPS and your printer should be listed
as an option.

hth

Patrick

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