Package Request: brlaser
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Package: brlaser
https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
Driver for (some) Brother laser printers
Most Brother printers support a standard printer language such as PCL or PostScript, but not all do. If you have a monochrome Brother laser printer (or multi-function device) and the other open source drivers don't work, this one might help.
It is known to support these printers:
Brother DCP-1510 series
Brother DCP-7030
Brother DCP-7055
Brother DCP-7055W
Brother DCP-7065DN
Brother MFC-7360N
- other Brother DCP/MFC series printers (not tested but likely)
Platform: MIPS based TP-Link Archer C7 v2, running dd-wrt.
Please test this package http://entware-3x.zyxmon.org/binaries/mips/test/brlaser_3-1_mips-3x.ipk?
Have a nice day!
It installed but I haven't tested it yet as my cups installation just went out of whack. I will get back to you on that.
It should be noted that brlaser does have a hidden requirement for ghostscript. Also, I can't get the drivers to show up in cups. Cups does not list any new Brother printer models that gutenprint does not already support.
We do not have brother printers to check brlaser. If we find how to fix the packages - we will make another test package.
I have several Brother printers that I can use to test the package but I don't know exactly how to do that. Can you explain exactly how you want me to test the package? It installed fine, I just can't figure out what to do next.
I do not use cups. May be this is the starting point - https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/cups.server
Where does the package place files (or install to)?
What folders under /opt (my root directory)?
Use opkg files <package_name> to display the info on installed package. For example opkg files cups.
It did install. I just thought it was going to create PPD files. It doesn't. That means I also require ppdc (PPD compiler for cups): https://www.cups.org/doc/postscript-driver.html#FIGURE_1
The package you sent created a brlaser.drv file, which can then produce several PPD files that cups can use to define printers.
The package @The-BB has built just creates everything as designed by the author.
cups-ppdc package contains ppdc. Have you managed to create ppd on your router and use Brother printers?
I installed cups-ppdc. I am getting an error when I run ppdc: "ppdc: Unable to find include file "<font.defs>" on line 20 of brlaser.drv."
I think it can't find this file: https://opensource.apple.com/source/cups/cups-327/cups/data/font.defs.auto.html
cups is splited into 10 smaller packages in Openwrt and Entware (opkg list cups*), but the file font.defs is not included in packages. I have asked @The-BB to make full cups.tar.gz with all files. I do not build mips and mipsel repo. The tar.gz will be in http://entware-3x.zyxmon.org/binaries/mips/test/ soon. You will find font.def in /opt/share/cups.... there.
I got it to produce the PPD files. The full command I needed, from the /opt/share/cups/drv/ directory, was: ppdc -I /opt/share/cups -d /opt/etc/cups/ppd -m brlaser.drv
I am still testing to see if the driver works.