Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?
On Wed 09 Mar 2016 at 15:16:20 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote:
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> Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian:
> >In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both pcl
> >and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, inkjet,
> >inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was surely in possession of a
> >manual and would know the printer capabilities. The CUPS filter chain
> >produces a file to be sent to the printer which is identified as "data",
> >not PostScript or PCL. Installing the two Brother .deb files (a five
> >minute job) seems to be the only way for printing to take place.
>
> My plan is to install the Brother drivers in a virtual machine. When that
> works, I can use wireshark to see what's actually being sent to the printer,
> and decide if I want to do something to make it work on the "real" machine.
> Jarle
Did you go through all this to set up scanning on the device? Of course
you didn't.
So why not do the same with printing and not make a song and a dance
about it.
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