Re: unsuccessfully install of printer brother hl-l2360dw

Matthias Meyser <Meyser@xenet.de> writes:

Am 27.12.2024 um 15:55 schrieb Matthias Meyser:

This ist a PCL Printer.
see
https://docs.freebsd.org/de/books/handbook/printing/#printing-lpd-filters-ps2pcl
 

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in english :)
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https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/printing/#printing-lpd-filters-ps2pcl

Thank you so much.  That allows me to use lpd and it's working.  The
handbook test was successful and I just asked Firefox to print a text
document using /usr/bin/lpr (using my /etc/printcap entry).  It worked!

I would still like to understand what's going on with CUPS, so I will
continue the troubleshooting but I'm very happy that I can print just
fine with lpd.

The printcap entry so far:

--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
lp|remote|brother|Brother HL-L2360DW:\
        :lp=9100@BRWB052162167A6:\
        :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl:\
        :sh:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:\
        :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

The filter:

--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sOutputFile=- -
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

I believe the driver pcl3 works better than the ljet4 given in the
handbook as per a couple of experiments here.  I probably should try
other drivers to see if there's any difference.

One program also metioned by the handbook is enscript.  It converts text
files to PostScript, so I can print text files.  But my text files are
usually UTF-8 and it seems enscript doesn't support UTF-8 as far as the
manual says.  So what I am now doing is using iconv to convert to latin1
before invoking enscript.  If you'd like to share how you do it, I'd
appreciate hearing about.

# iconv -f UTF-8 -t LATIN1 sample.txt | enscript -X latin1 -Premote
[ 1 page * 1 copy ] sent to remote