Michael Mol <mikemol <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Are you saying that you were able to print to your brother printers by > > more or less following these steps: > > 1. buy a computer, install gentoo > > 2. buy a brother printer, plug it into computer via usb > > 3. emerge net-print/cups and net-print/foomatic-filters > > 4. Visit the local cups webpage, add new printer, select "brother" > > 5. print > > Notably missing from my list is a visit to brother's website (or any > > other website) to download drivers/binaries/confs/etc. > More or less. The Brother printers happen to be attached to a Debian > box, but the Gentoo box doesn't require any additional drivers in > order to feed the content to the Debian box over IPP. (And the Debian > box isn't doing any PCL->Brother or PostScript->Brother translation.) Wow, when I go into CUPS, I do not even see brother listed. (localhost:631) on a gentoo system. this link: http://www.openprinting.org/printers did list many brother printers,but not the one I'm interested in : Brother MFC-J6710DW Inkjet What did you do to your cups to get it to show (flags?) brother printers as an option to install a brother printer? Here are my flags: Installed versions: 1.5.2-r4^t(00:11:27 09/13/12)(X acl dbus filters gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png python slp ssl threads tiff usb -avahi <snip> Maybe the debian system has other additional software installed besides cups? James
