Re: unsuccessfully install of printer brother hl-l2360dw

In article <87wmei6gyl.fsf@example.com>,
Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

I could never make this work, but I believe you're right.  Looking at my
printer settings (which I printed out using the printer's menu) I
see... On page 3/3, in network configuration, I see:
>
 <Active services>          BRN3C2AF43F4D7C
                            BINARY_P1
                            TEXT_P1
                            POSTSCRIPT_P1
                            PCL_P1
                            BRN3C2AF43F4D7C_AT
>
I've seen in the CUPS administration that a URL mentions BINARY_P1, so
it seems that CUPS was using this BINARY_P1 service.  Perhaps if I were
to change it to POSTSCRIPT_P1, it would then accept PostScript from the
network.

Spew a little PostScript to it.
ISTR ghostscript includes some samples or you can use enscript, a2ps
and friends to generate some.

But my experience with CUPS was not very good because I could never
print two-sided-long-edge.  It always printed two-sided-short-edge (or
one-sided).  Since I was able to make it always print
two-sided-long-edge by not using CUPS at all, I gave up on CUPS.

OpenBSD's ipptool(1) claims your printer supports short and long edge.
Try with cups-lpr(1)
<URL:https://openprinting.github.io/cups/doc/man-lpr.html>
| -o sides=two-sided-long-edge
|     Prints on both sides of the paper for portrait output.
| -o sides=two-sided-short-edge
|     Prints on both sides of the paper for landscape output.

You already know I switched to OpenBSD in the process of debugging this.
FWIW, I was able to set up the printer to use IPP.  I was able to print
with it, but with the same two-sided-short-edge behavior as using the
LPD:// URL in CUPS.
>
All in all, CUPS worked, but it turns out my life has been better with
just using /etc/printcap and lpr.
>
I wanted to thank you for the help! 
>
If I find anything new, I'll post again.

If you get OpenBSD's cups to work, that will point to a bug in FreeBSD's.

BTW my WAG is OpenBSD's vmm supports FreeBSD guests if you want test
FreeBSD without dual booting:
<URL:https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html#StartVm>

John
groenveld@acm.org