Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[karl]

Thelma:
> On 12/01/2020 12:27 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> > That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
> > Why not just use postscript.
...
> How do you use it / install it  on HL-5370?

You don't install it on the printer, it is already there.
But if you bypass cups and send the postscript file directly to
the printer, you have to tell the the printer to always use br-scrip
emulation.

> When I was installing via "rpm" driver  for another printer HL-3170CDW I got 
> a warning:
> 
> lpadmin -p HL3170CDW -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P 
> /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/brother_hl3170cdw_printer_en.ppd
> lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future 
> version of CUPS. 

I don't know much about cups, but they seems to be in the middle of 
something:

 https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[thelma]

On 12/01/2020 12:27 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
> Why not just use postscript.
> 
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
 
How do you use it / install it  on HL-5370?

When I was installing via "rpm" driver  for another printer HL-3170CDW I got a 
warning:

lpadmin -p HL3170CDW -E -v usb://dev/usb/lp0 -P 
/usr/share/cups/model/Brother/brother_hl3170cdw_printer_en.ppd
lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future 
version of CUPS. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[karl]

That printer supports BR-Script (PostScript lvl3 language emulation).
Why not just use postscript.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[thelma]

On 11/30/2020 08:41 PM, Miles Malone wrote:
> Install the net-print/brother-hl5370dw-bin driver from the brother printer
> overlay, and then add the printer with that driver from the cups browser
> interface.  Generally I find the brother binary cups drivers pretty great
> 
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 11:17,  wrote:
> 
>> Is there an easy way to install printer via cupsd/browser?
>>
>> The cupsd recognized my printer but doesn't list any driver.  When I
>> tested Debian it recognized my printer and driver was available.
>> How did they do it?

That is what I did, it worked.  Another printer I have is hl-3170cdw and
there are no drivers for it but installation via rpm is easy:

Instalation instructions at:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Brother_networked_printer

check if exist if not make it:

mkdir -p /var/spool/lpd
mkdir -p /usr/lib64/cups/filter

rpm -i --nodeps hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i --nodeps hl3170cdwcupswrapper-1.1.4-0.i386.rpm

ln -s /usr/lib64/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_hl3170cdw
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/

Ps. current "rpm-4.14.2.1-r1" package is buggy (should not be used)
there is a bug-filed against it.
rpm-4.16.0 works OK

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

[Miles Malone]

Install the net-print/brother-hl5370dw-bin driver from the brother printer
overlay, and then add the printer with that driver from the cups browser
interface.  Generally I find the brother binary cups drivers pretty great

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 11:17,  wrote:

> Is there an easy way to install printer via cupsd/browser?
>
> The cupsd recognized my printer but doesn't list any driver.  When I
> tested Debian it recognized my printer and driver was available.
> How did they do it?
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:29:28 +0100
Nils Freydank  wrote:

> You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd-
> nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too.

can I use a gentoo chroot 32 bit, install cups and the driver for the printer
and let it run when I need?


Silvio 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

Well, depends on your printer and exact driver you prefer to use.

I've just set up my HL-L5100DN as "Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/
Postscript" and it works like a charm. Is it any reason for you to use 
proprietary drivers?

В письме от понедельник, 12 марта 2018 г. 19:54:18 +07 пользователь 
siefke_lis...@web.de написал:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need
> a multilib System?
> 
> https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay
> 
> I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work.
> 
> Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole
> system have to be built accordingly?
> 
> Thank you & Nice Day
> Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:43:46 +0100
Nils Freydank  wrote:

> This should work (and is the reason for the abi-USE flags). But you need a 
> multilib after all, at least for your compiler - but as far as I know 
> switchting from no-multilib toolchains isn't easy. I never tested that though.

Yes it's not easy. I try gcc glibc but at end failed. So I think it
will be easier buy a new printer.

Thank you at all

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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[Nils Freydank]

Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 17:36:13 CET schrieb Lasse Pouru:
> [...]
> 
> I guess if you only need multilib for this one package it would be
> possible to compile it and its dependencies with the abi_x86_32 USE flag
> instead of setting the ABI_X86 variable for the whole system?
> 
> - Lasse

This should work (and is the reason for the abi-USE flags). But you need a 
multilib after all, at least for your compiler - but as far as I know 
switchting from no-multilib toolchains isn't easy. I never tested that though.

Greetings,
Nils

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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[Lasse Pouru]

Mick  writes:

> On Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29:28 GMT Nils Freydank wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need
>> > a multilib System?
>> 
>> unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but
>> most ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some
>> missing 32bit userspace libs they need etc.
>> 
>> > https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay
>> > 
>> > I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work.
>> > 
>> > Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole
>> > system have to be built accordingly?
>> 
>> You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd-
>> nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too.
>> 
>> > Thank you & Nice Day
>> > Silvio
>> 
>> I hope I could help a bit,
>> Nils
>
> I can confirm this.  When I tried to install net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin 
> from the brother overlay on a amd64 no-multilib system it failed.
>
> I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give 
> it a go one of these days if it helps.

I guess if you only need multilib for this one package it would be
possible to compile it and its dependencies with the abi_x86_32 USE flag
instead of setting the ABI_X86 variable for the whole system?

- Lasse

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[Mick]

On Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29:28 GMT Nils Freydank wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need
> > a multilib System?
> 
> unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but
> most ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some
> missing 32bit userspace libs they need etc.
> 
> > https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay
> > 
> > I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work.
> > 
> > Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole
> > system have to be built accordingly?
> 
> You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd-
> nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too.
> 
> > Thank you & Nice Day
> > Silvio
> 
> I hope I could help a bit,
> Nils

I can confirm this.  When I tried to install net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin 
from the brother overlay on a amd64 no-multilib system it failed.

I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give 
it a go one of these days if it helps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[Nils Freydank]

Hi,

Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need
> a multilib System?
unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but most 
ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some missing 32bit 
userspace libs they need etc.


> https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay
> 
> I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work.
> 
> Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole
> system have to be built accordingly?
You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd-
nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too.
 
> Thank you & Nice Day
> Silvio

I hope I could help a bit,
Nils


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:57:07 -0800
Daniel Frey  wrote:

> I have an HP printer and hplip doesn't work with it, so beware...

Uff sometimes really have thoughts go back to Windows. :) I have HP PSC
1215 now from my dad and with hplip it work. Scanner, printer I need to
buy Ink. 

Silvio 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:57:29 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote:

> It's a Laserjet CP1025nw. I fought with hplip for a day or two, hplip 
> recognized the printer but wouldn't install it properly. Even using 
> kdesu or similar it would say it installed properly but nothing would 
> print from it. I eventually found foo2zjs, which works fine with it.

ISTR these are supported by hplip now, I had a similar model and had to
use foo2zjs at the start but was later able to dispense with it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is
no woman around to hear him - Is he still wrong?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Daniel Frey]

On 2016-12-11 8:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:

On December 11, 2016 11:57:07 PM GMT+01:00, Daniel Frey  
wrote:

On 2016-12-11 10:06 AM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700
Alec Ten Harmsel  wrote:


I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every

printer

I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked

out

of the box without extra drivers.

I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out

blank

pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I
think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for
native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer.


Silvio

I have an HP printer and hplip doesn't work with it, so beware...

Dan

Dan,

Which HP printer do you have? I have used several in the past and never had 
issues with them.

One tip though, independent of brand, ink based printers may sound cheap, but I 
find the ink dries up long before they are supposed to be empty. Never had that 
problem with laser printers.

--
Joost
It's a Laserjet CP1025nw. I fought with hplip for a day or two, hplip 
recognized the printer but wouldn't install it properly. Even using 
kdesu or similar it would say it installed properly but nothing would 
print from it. I eventually found foo2zjs, which works fine with it.


Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[J. Roeleveld]

On December 11, 2016 11:57:07 PM GMT+01:00, Daniel Frey  
wrote:
>On 2016-12-11 10:06 AM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700
>> Alec Ten Harmsel  wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every
>printer
>>> I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked
>out
>>> of the box without extra drivers.
>>
>> I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out
>blank
>> pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I
>> think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for
>> native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer.
>>
>>
>> Silvio
>
>I have an HP printer and hplip doesn't work with it, so beware...
>
>Dan

Dan,

Which HP printer do you have? I have used several in the past and never had 
issues with them.

One tip though, independent of brand, ink based printers may sound cheap, but I 
find the ink dries up long before they are supposed to be empty. Never had that 
problem with laser printers.

--
Joost
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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[J. Roeleveld]

On December 11, 2016 12:45:46 AM GMT+01:00, Alec Ten Harmsel 
 wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:17:55PM +0100, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:49:48 +0100
>> Nils Freydank  wrote:
>> 
>> > would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how
>awful this 
>> > would become.
>> 
>> I try and this make me more pain. I stopped. GCC, GLIBC and sandbox
>not
>> want compile. Something with blabla.32.h is missing. I find nothing
>in
>> documentation how can switch or im blind. (i wear classes :) 
>
>I believe going from nomultilib to multilib is not officially
>supported.
>
>I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer
>I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out
>of the box without extra drivers.
>
>Alec

It is possible. But is not simple.
You need to create a multilib chroot. Build packages there which you then 
install on your main environment.

Best try this on a VM first a few times to make sure you fully understand all 
the steps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Daniel Frey]

On 2016-12-11 10:06 AM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700
Alec Ten Harmsel  wrote:


I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer
I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out
of the box without extra drivers.


I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out blank
pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I
think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for
native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer.


Silvio


I have an HP printer and hplip doesn't work with it, so beware...

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700
Alec Ten Harmsel  wrote:

> I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer
> I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out
> of the box without extra drivers.


I have try now. With generic driver I play but they give only out blank 
pages. No text. I have now try with older hp and hplip it work. So I 
think I will buy a HP Device. I write to Brother Support and ask for 
native 64 support and which printer/scanner/fax combi but no answer. 


Silvio


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:45:46 -0700
Alec Ten Harmsel  wrote:

> I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer
> I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out
> of the box without extra drivers.

The printer take job but print not out. That's the problem. Im not sure
there is a way to run without driver from brother. 


Silvio


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Bertram Scharpf]

On Saturday, 10. Dec 2016, 23:17:55 +0100, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:49:48 +0100
> Nils Freydank  wrote:
> 
> > would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how awful 
> > this 
> > would become.
> 
> I try and this make me more pain. I stopped. GCC, GLIBC and sandbox not
> want compile. Something with blabla.32.h is missing. I find nothing in
> documentation how can switch or im blind. (i wear classes :) 
> 
> The question is, give printer (Scanner, FAX and Printer Combination) which 
> work
> under native x86_64 or all will not work? I try tomorrow with HP from my dad, 
> when will work I think I buy new device. After 7 Years this will be ok.  

It hurts me to hear that you wasted so much precious time.

Let me propose you to do:

  - Download some Debian, Ububunt, Mint, Grml or whatever
USB stick in case you missed that until now,

  - Boot it, install a standard driver, print out
"exampke/niklolaus.ps" from my project
 and
validate it,

  - Print it out another time but redirect /dev/ulpt0 or
whats name is is ever to a file,

  - send this file to me.

I'll try to write a filter, and I'm deeply interested in
finding out whether my PJL project will manage that.

Bertram


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Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Alec Ten Harmsel]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:17:55PM +0100, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:49:48 +0100
> Nils Freydank  wrote:
> 
> > would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how awful 
> > this 
> > would become.
> 
> I try and this make me more pain. I stopped. GCC, GLIBC and sandbox not
> want compile. Something with blabla.32.h is missing. I find nothing in
> documentation how can switch or im blind. (i wear classes :) 

I believe going from nomultilib to multilib is not officially supported.

I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer
I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out
of the box without extra drivers.

Alec

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:49:48 +0100
Nils Freydank  wrote:

> would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how awful 
> this 
> would become.

I try and this make me more pain. I stopped. GCC, GLIBC and sandbox not
want compile. Something with blabla.32.h is missing. I find nothing in
documentation how can switch or im blind. (i wear classes :) 

The question is, give printer (Scanner, FAX and Printer Combination) which work
under native x86_64 or all will not work? I try tomorrow with HP from my dad, 
when will work I think I buy new device. After 7 Years this will be ok.  

I read little in Web and what I understand is that HP Devices work easy and 
without any problems. Is it true? I prefer Brother, but what not want that 
not want. 


Silvio


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Nils Freydank]

Hello Silvio,

At thursday, dec 8 2016, 15:08:34 CET wrote siefke_lis...@web.de:
> Hello,
> 
> when I want use a Brother Printer (MFC 7320) it's need multilib? How can
> I fix this?
> 
> siefke@sisibox ~ $ eselect profile list
> Available profile symlink targets:
> ...
>   [11]  default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib *
> ---
I’m running two brother printers with “upstream“ drivers, ebuilds copied from 
brother overlay and modified regarding my needs. The drivers are binary 32bit 
ones for x86/i686 .deb or .rpm (in my case the rpm ones), so you *definitely* 
would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how awful this 
would become.
> At moment I use no-multilib but what must do for use multilib with a Brother
> Multi Function Printer.
You can change your profile one *without* the term "no-multilib".

But to be honest the suggestion by Betram looks most appealing to me (and I 
consider even migrating my stuff to this one!).

> Thank you for help.
> 
> Silvio


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Bertram Scharpf]

On Friday, 09. Dec 2016, 11:16:18 +0100, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:02:51 +0100
> 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.
> > 
> > Then I wrap around this a simple self-written PJL frame.
> > 
> > You can have my PJL generator if you want (It's in Ruby).
> 
> Yes thanks if you like to share. 

Say something like

  $ sudo gem install pjl

or first examine it on .

There's a small dependency on a gem "appl" that's also
available on RubyGems and on my Github page.

However, to the present day I did not manage to make the
scanner work on FreeBSD. I plug it into a Linux machine
before I scan.

Bertram


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Ian Bloss]

You could try running a 32bit chroot. This is how I deal with steam
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Chroot

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016, 02:21 siefke_lis...@web.de 
wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:40:46 -0800
> Daniel Frey  wrote:
>
> > I am pretty sure the Brother drivers are in a compiled format (you don't
> > compile them when you install them) so it will require multilib. No way
> > around this unless Brother has no-multilib drivers on their website
> > (unlikely.)
>
> That's clear extract the deb file and moved cp -rv usr/ / and so on.
> This all do, I saw brother overlay and from there I saw multilib need
> to be activated.
>
> So I think must search a printer / scanner / fax with make the job without
> any needs of driver. Postscript I think will be find and when saw forum of
> Linux Users then should buy a HP.
>
> Silvio
> --
> Silvio Siefke 
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:40:46 -0800
Daniel Frey  wrote:

> I am pretty sure the Brother drivers are in a compiled format (you don't 
> compile them when you install them) so it will require multilib. No way 
> around this unless Brother has no-multilib drivers on their website 
> (unlikely.)

That's clear extract the deb file and moved cp -rv usr/ / and so on. 
This all do, I saw brother overlay and from there I saw multilib need
to be activated. 

So I think must search a printer / scanner / fax with make the job without
any needs of driver. Postscript I think will be find and when saw forum of
Linux Users then should buy a HP. 

Silvio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[siefke_lis...@web.de]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:02:51 +0100
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

Really on FreeBSD? Wow a few years ago I work with FreeBSD and
on mailinglist they not could help to become running. That's 
why I going to Gentoo. 

> 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.
> 
> For about 8 years, though not printing too much, I never had
> any problem.
> 
> You can have my PJL generator if you want (It's in Ruby).

Yes thanks if you like to share. 

Silvio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi Silvio,

On Thursday, 08. Dec 2016, 15:08:34 +0100, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:
> when I want use a Brother Printer (MFC 7320) it's need multilib? How can 
> I fix this? 

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.

For about 8 years, though not printing too much, I never had
any problem.

You can have my PJL generator if you want (It's in Ruby).

Bertram


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Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Daniel Frey]

On 2016-12-08 6:08 AM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote:

Hello,

when I want use a Brother Printer (MFC 7320) it's need multilib? How can
I fix this?

siefke@sisibox ~ $ eselect profile list
Available profile symlink targets:
...
   [11]  default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib *
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At moment I use no-multilib but what must do for use multilib with a Brother
Multi Function Printer.

Thank you for help.

Silvio



I am pretty sure the Brother drivers are in a compiled format (you don't 
compile them when you install them) so it will require multilib. No way 
around this unless Brother has no-multilib drivers on their website 
(unlikely.)


Dan