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
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