On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:53, Stefan Unterweger <ste...@aleturo.com> wrote: > I know this thread is very old, but I thought this might be useful for > the archives -- and maybe for the original poster as well. >
As the person who wrote this, I thank you for posting this. I gave up trying to get lpd working, and instead used cups to setup printing. My use was more cathartic, as I thought that my favorite OS shouldn't be hamstrung by something as mundane as printing. I actually bought a 9840 because 1.) it was a color laser, and the toner is expensive, but lasts forever 2.) it had a scanner > Your printer seems very similar to mine, which is a MFC8380DN. > I've combed through the manual, and network-wise it supports everything > mine does and some more. As Christian correctly said, BRScript3 is just > Brother's fancy name for Postscript -- your printer definitely supports > it, and I'm convinced that it supports hassle-free lpd operation as > well. Since I detest cups with a fiery vengeance, I'm running my printer > on my network with lpd only, and it works like a charm. > > The crucial point is that you have to use a specific lpd queue for the > printer to accept the input as Postscript and not just as generic plain > text. The manual for your printer omits this passage, but in several > others (including mine) it is given. > > The manual states (look for LPD+Mac operation) that you have to > construct the queue name like this: 'BRNxxxxxxxxxxxx_AT', > with the x'es replaced by the MAC address of your printer. > > In my case, the printcap recipe looks like this: > > | brother|Brother MFC-9840CDW:\ > | B B B :lp=:rm=172.23.13.150:rp=BRN001BA968596A_AT:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:lf=/ var/log/lpd-errs > > Obviously, you have to replace IP address and MAC address by your own. > If you know your printer's IP address, then ping it and use `arp -a` to > get the MAC address. > I did not know this... how did you find this out? I read through all the manuals that came with the printer, but didn't see anything about this even on the brother website. Can you supply a link for me, and others? > An even simpler recipe is the JetDirect emulation at Port 9100. > There you don't have to fiddle around with print queues, and the printer > basically just prints everything it sees on that port, as somebody else > already mentioned in this thread: > > | brother|Brother MFC-9840CDW:\ > | B B B :lp=9100@172.23.13.150:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs > that's freaking awesome... I had an HP 6310 that I got rid of recently (mainly because ink for that thing was not worth it) that I couldn't get to print files either. Admittedly, I only print once in a while, but it's nice to not have to SCP to a windows box. I think I may have had my printcap messed up at some point. > As I said, my printer works perfect with both configurations, using > OpenBSD's lpd, and if I feed Postscript via lpr it just prints it. > It won't eat PDF, but that's just a manner of using `pdf2ps $file - | lpr` > I will definitely keep that in mind, I did research the pdf2ps for another project I had, but didn't think about it for solving my printing issues. > I hope somebody might find this still useful > and won't disturb the ashes of this thread anymore.B :o) > > I don't mind resurrecting zombie threads, especially if new information comes to light, or new knowledge... thanks again. Maybe this evening, I'll give lpd another chance... > B B s//un
