On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 05:43:10PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> writes: > > [Brother printer] > > > I did manage to get the printer going. I should have mentionned long > > ago what the final problem was. > > > > It turns out I was trying to print a pdf to a postscript printer. I > > thought that pdf was a specialized form of postscript, the way inkscape > > files are a specialized form of svg. Turns out that was completely > > wrong. > > This suggests that something is wrong with the driver/ input filter > setup. That's supposed to convert the input file to something the > printer understands. I can print PostScript, PDF and a number of kinds > of files just fine.
I'm using the driver from Brother, and lpr from lprng. I found the lprng-doc package. I suppose the next thing is to read it, I am not using CUPS. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng