On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > 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?
Looking at dependencies, these may be relevant packages installed on the debian box: cups-driver-gutenprint foomatic-db foomatic-engine So, I may be wrong about my print server not doing translation. Or maybe my print server is providing IPP clients with the appropriate PPD file to generate printer commands. I really don't know. My setup seems to just work. You might poke net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds and net-print/gutenprint. Really, I'd suggest you try net-print/foomatic-*; it's easier to shotgun it and reduce to a minimal working set than attack it from the other direction. -- :wq
