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From: groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unsuccessfully install of printer brother hl-l2360dw
Date: 26 Jan 2025 01:06:17 GMT
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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