Re: Where are CUPS Brother drivers?
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:35AM +0100, boo wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 00:47 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I installed the CUPS drivers for a Brother network printer on a Debian
> > machine the other week, and it worked *perfectly* using the driver for
> > the HL-1670N, even though the printer is an HL-1870N.
>
> I expect you're missing the foomatic-filters-ppds package:
Perhaps because it isn't part of woody.
>
> boo@duck:~$ sudo apt-file search ppd | grep 1870
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> Postscript.ppd.gz
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> hl1250.ppd.gz
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> hpijs.ppd.gz
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> lj5gray.ppd.gz
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> ljet4.ppd.gz
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> ljet4d.ppd.gz
> foomatic-filters-ppds: usr/share/ppd/Brother/Brother-HL-1870N-
> pxlmono.ppd.gz
But I do have text/cupsomatic-ppd installed, which contains
/usr/share/cups/model/Brother/HL-1670N-Postscript.ppd
But for some reason it isn't finding the Brother option when selecting
a printer model. It never gets around to asking about a model number.
But yes, it works fine on my other Debian woody system, where I could tell it
Ihave a Brother printer, and I told it the model number was 1670N, which
worked.
As far as I can tell, the only difference between the 1670N and the 1870N
is the amount of RAM on the printer.
-- hendrik
>
> Alternatively, http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?
> recnum=Brother-HL-1870N claims that there is a PPD on the driver CD (or
> downloadable from Brother). Stuff this into /usr/share/cups/model and
> restart cups. WFM.
>
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