On 2016-12-08 22:02, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > I have a Brother MFC 7420. Yet, it's not connected to my > Gentoo but to a FreeBSD box. There, I completely ignored the > recommended drivers. I configured lpd (/etc/printcap) to > first pipe the PostScript/PDF documents through a > Ghostscript command. The only real problem was to find the > proper device driver (ljet2p). > > gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet2p -r600 > -sOutputFile=- - > > Then I wrap around this a simple self-written PJL frame.
If you do something like this, you may find noqp interesting: https://github.com/nobrowser/noqp IIRC there are other similar programs as well - writing noqp was definitely motivated by NIH to a fairly large degree :-) -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign: http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html
