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Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED



On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have.
> > 
> > Which version of Windows?  Or are you saying that your printer has drivers for 
> > all versions of Windows?  In my experience, you have to throw things away 
> > when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that version.  
> > After you have scoured the Internet.
> > 
> 
> i have both xp and win 7.
> 
> printer is a dcp-8110dn.
> 
> my problem under linux is NOT the driver.  as i said, brother actually
> has a cups/driver package for linux - but i found it to be broken and
> doing weird set-up things.

What is this "driver" you are talking about? Does it have a location and
a name on your machine? Is it provided in Debian?

If the Brother "driver" is broken then surely you know who to contact?

> so i used the cups driver, i can't remember what driver specifically,
> and all was well after a considerable amount of effort.

cups provides few "drivers". Which one did you use? It should be on your
system if you are using it.

> it's actually getting CUPS to work that's my problem, not the driver
> under cups.  i think people are assuming i'm having a driver problem
> when i'm actually having a getting cups to work problem.

Ah. It's not the "driver"? It's the scheduler which is misbehaving, In
what way?

> now, last time i tried to set it up was about 2 years ago.  maybe
> things are better now, hence the reason i should try again.  but my
> experience last time was so miserable i keep procrastinating.

What "things" could be better? 


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