Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pawel Veselov wrote: Hello, I spent some time picking a relatively cheap printer that I can also use with OpenBSD, and finally got a Brother HL-5250DN, that can connect over ethernet and has duplex printing. I put together an instruction sheet at http://manticore.2y.net/hl5250dn.html, if

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Pawel Veselov
Hi, The processing filter for the printer is a pre-compiled Linux binary. The GPL license is because of Brother CUPS and LPD drivers. Thanks, Pawel. On 10/16/07, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pawel Veselov wrote: Hello, I spent some time picking a relatively cheap

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
FWIW: I use the HL-5150D (via USB). I don't use cups. I don't use lpr/lpd. I just use foomatic-rip (because I don't need queueing at my desk very often) with a BR5150_2.ppd.

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Greg Thomas
On 10/16/07, Pawel Veselov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The processing filter for the printer is a pre-compiled Linux binary. The GPL license is because of Brother CUPS and LPD drivers. But the 5250 does Postscript emulation, do you need more than that? I don't do much with my printer but

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Matthew Szudzik
Forgive me for saying this but I just do not get it. Why did you need to use Linux compatibility layer when CUPS is OpenBSD packages? According to http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5250DN this is not a true PostScript printer. Instead, the Windows and Linux

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:26:06 -0700 From: Pawel Veselov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD On 10/16/07, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me for saying this but I just do not get it. Why did you need to use Linux compatibility layer when

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Greg Thomas
On 10/16/07, Matthew Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me for saying this but I just do not get it. Why did you need to use Linux compatibility layer when CUPS is OpenBSD packages? According to http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5250DN this is not a

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Brian Havens
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:18:16PM -0400, Matthew Szudzik wrote: Forgive me for saying this but I just do not get it. Why did you need to use Linux compatibility layer when CUPS is OpenBSD packages? According to http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5250DN

Re: Brother HL-5250DN printer w/OpenBSD

2007-10-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/16/07, Matthew Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me for saying this but I just do not get it. Why did you need to use Linux compatibility layer when CUPS is OpenBSD packages? According to http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5250DN this is not a