Jarle Aase wrote: > > Den 09. mars 2016 14:27, skrev Brian: >> In another mail Jarle Aase said: > I think this printer supports both >> pcl and postscript. Faint alarm bells sounded in my head - inkjet, >> inkjet, inkjet. I ignored the warning; after all he was surely in >> possession of a manual and would know the printer capabilities. The >> CUPS filter chain produces a file to be sent to the printer which is >> identified as "data", not PostScript or PCL. Installing the two >> Brother .deb files (a five minute job) seems to be the only way for >> printing to take place. > > My plan is to install the Brother drivers in a virtual machine. When > that works, I can use wireshark to see what's actually being sent to the > printer, and decide if I want to do something to make it work on the > "real" machine. > > Jarle
You must have a lot of time boy, you must be lucky! Most of us take the shortest path possible. regards
