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Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%



On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:18:40 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon 22 Jun 2015 at 21:55:40 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> 
> > * it's possible that there's still a problem with the printer being on
> > ethernet, as of right now it's on USB (thank again Brian for that
> > suggestion).
> > 
> > Thanks very much everyone for your help !
> 
> I think Gary Dale's prod was a good one. You are also deserve a pat on
> the back for perservering and thinking it through for yourself.
> 

I got ethernet working!

The very weird thing that CUPS does is give me a  selection of 6, that's right, 6 different "discovered" network printers to choose from.

5 of them are exactly the same.
1 of them is different AND DOES NOT WORK. (it's:  lpd://BRN001BA9BC9354/BINARY_P1)

There's something somewhat screwed up and it's unknown whether it's brother's printer driver or CUPS.

However just for the future searchers of this list, here's the choice that _does_ work.

  dnssd://Brother%20DCP-8110DN._ipp._tcp.local/

LOL.  Never in a million years could i have figured out that was something i could enter.  good thing CUPS gave me the choice so i didn't have to try and figure it out.  Clearly brother is doing something that's not totally wrong since CUPS gave me the choice and it worked.  I had to pick the associated PPD file too, but that was part of the install when i installed Brother's debian package...

Now the really hard part.  Gonna try and get the scanner working.

*heavy sigh*

Brian


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