On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 09:27:09PM -0700, Ben Hancock wrote: > Boy, I went down the rabbit hole on this one. I'll spare the list > all the gory details, but for the sake of posterity I figured I'll > try to close the loop on this thread. > > To make a long story short: After failing to get the printer working > with just regular lpr, I tried CUPS to no avail. Along the way,
Did you happen to try CUPS with the brlaser package installed? I have a Brother HL-L2390DW, and once I found brlaser it just worked. -Ryan > however, I discovered a Perl script in a Linux package available > on Brother's website that ostensibly could have served as an input > filter for lpr (called, somewhat obviously, `lpdfilter`). After a > bit of searching, I found a related thread [1] on a FreeBSD list > and made some edits to this script, hoping that it would be the trick. > > Where I hit a wall was with a binary (also included in the package) > called `rawtobr3`, that the Perl script expected. It appears to be > proprietary Brother stuff and kept throwing an error, probably > because it was built for Linux and not BSD. I did find a GitHub > repo via a FreeBSD forum thread [2] that seemed to include _some_ > version of this program, but it threw another error and the filter > did not work. > > So, to wrap up: I do not recommend the Brother HLL2350DW for your > OpenBSD printing needs. I may end up heeding the suggestions to > simply buy a printer that speaks PostScript. Recommendations welcome. > > - Ben > > [1] > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2017-July/277994.html > > [2] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/port-for-brother-printer-drivers.78393/ >
