On 2020-06-26 14:42, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2020-06-26 13:23, Rocky Hotas wrote:
On giu 25 14:18, Greg Troxel wrote:
That doesn't really surprise me if the printer expects postscript. You
omitted the model from your email.
As in a previous answer to this thread, it is Brother MFC L2750DN.
Looking at the documentation, the following list of printers supports
PCL6, BR-Script3 and PDF:
DCP-L2550DN/MFC-L2730DW/MFC-L2750DW.
Any other model apparently do not have any kind of printer emulation
capability. I suspect BR-Script3 is Brothers own print
handling/layout/formatting/whatever protocol, and that is the only
protocol supported on other models.
So you need to get the things you want printed formatted using that
protocol. Postscript is obviously not supported on any of them, and PCL
and PDF only on some models.
By the way, the next step here is to check in the menu system of the
printer if you can set the printer emulation. If you can, then set it to
PCL then, and then do the printf | netcat thing. Hopefully that should
then work...
If you don't have a setting for printer emulation, I would say that then
you are stuck with the proprietary format, and your best bet is CUPS.
If you can do PCL, then you just need something that can translate
whatever documents you have to PCL, and you can just throw that at port
9100.
Johnny
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