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  • Printing to a network printer: Brother DCP-L2540DW?

    From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 3 07:22:45 2020
    Dear c.o.o.misc,

    In hope there is someone still using this newsgroup.

    I am runnig ArcaOS in a VirtualBox, and since I have internet access,
    I presume I can also talk to the local net. Is there a way to configure
    my Brother DCP-L2540DW printer with CUPS, or any other current OS/2
    printing technology? Alternatively, I can maybe connect to a print
    server running in the host system, Windows 10? Though my preference
    is the network printer itself, since that experience translates to a
    physical machine as well.

    What do I have to look into before I start to blindly test if it might
    work?

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  • From Andreas Kohl@21:1/5 to Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Sun May 3 14:00:03 2020
    Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson schrieb:
    Dear c.o.o.misc,

    In hope there is someone still using this newsgroup.

    I am runnig ArcaOS in a VirtualBox, and since I have internet access,
    I presume I can also talk to the local net. Is there a way to configure
    my Brother DCP-L2540DW printer with CUPS, or any other current OS/2
    printing technology?

    You can connect via LPR/LPD, Port 9100, IPP or FTP to the printer. So
    uploading a PostScript file to the printer's ftp server should be the
    first attempt. For creation of printer objects PCL6 (HP Laserjet 4000
    from LASERJET.DRV) and PostScript Level 3 (PSCRIPT.DRV) can be used. You
    can extract the ppd file from the Windows BRScript driver package (pkzip
    /fix) available from Brother's website.

    --
    Andreas

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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@21:1/5 to Andreas Kohl on Sat May 16 19:24:15 2020
    On 03/05/2020 8:00 pm, Andreas Kohl wrote:
    Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson schrieb:
    Dear c.o.o.misc,

    In hope there is someone still using this newsgroup.

    I am runnig ArcaOS in a VirtualBox, and since I have internet access,
    I presume I can also talk to the local net.  Is there a way to configure
    my Brother DCP-L2540DW printer with CUPS, or any other current OS/2
    printing technology?

    You can connect via LPR/LPD, Port 9100, IPP or FTP to the printer. So uploading a PostScript file to the printer's ftp server should be the
    first attempt. For creation of printer objects PCL6 (HP Laserjet 4000
    from LASERJET.DRV) and PostScript Level 3 (PSCRIPT.DRV) can be used. You
    can extract the ppd file from the Windows BRScript driver package (pkzip /fix) available from Brother's website.


    Thank you. I am restarting this project after some time. I discovered
    that my printer's FTP service is "offline" and I don't know how to turn
    it on. The services that are enabled include LPD and IPP; APIPA, SNMP,
    Raw Port and WebServices -- whatever those are.

    Is there a command line tool, or something else, that I can use to send
    a postscript file to the LPD service on my printer? Preferably some-
    thing I don't have to download separately. I did not find a quick help
    for the lpr and lpq commands I do have.

    I already have the printer configured on Windows 10, can I extract the
    ppd files from that installation, or do I have to download this BRScript package you mentioned?


    --
    Johann | email: invalid -> com | www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
    I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | twitter: @myrkraverk

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