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From: Matthias Meyser <Meyser@xenet.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unsuccessfully install of printer brother hl-l2360dw
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:55:28 +0100
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Am 26.12.2024 um 19:47 schrieb Salvador Mirzo:
> I've been trying to install a Brother HL-L2360DW.  I managed to install
> it at /etc/printcap and use it just fine with lpd.  I installed as:
> 
> lp:Brother HL-L2360DW:\
>        :lp=9100@BRWB052162167A6:\
>        :if=/usr/local/libexec/lf2crlf:\
>        :sh:sd=/var/spool/output/brother:\
>        :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> 
> The name BRWB052162167A6 is the hostname of the printer:
> 
> # ping BRWB052162167A6
> PING BRWB052162167A6 (192.168.15.16): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.15.16: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=3.197 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.15.16: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.978 ms
> ^C
> --- BRWB052162167A6 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.978/3.087/3.197/0.110 ms
> 
> This way I can print ASCII documents.  Even UTF-8 text documents won't
> print out correctly.  Apparently the printer is not a PostScript
> printer, so we can't send PostScript to it.  When I tried, I got
> PostScript code out on paper.  So I figured /etc/printcap wouldn't
> suffice.  I then tried CUPS.

This ist a PCL Printer.

see https://docs.freebsd.org/de/books/handbook/printing/#printing-lpd-filters-ps2pcl


With best regards
    Matthias