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brlaser - Brother laser printer driver #2677

Open rscm opened 1 year ago

rscm commented 1 year ago

Official package name:

brlaser

License (must be an OSI approved Open Source license):

GPL-2.0 license

Download URL of latest release: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/brlaser/ https://packages.debian.org/unstable/printer-driver-brlaser https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/printer-driver-brlaser

Latest release date (must be recent):

Sep 22 2019 (github)

Description:

brlaser: Brother laser printer driver brlaser is a CUPS driver for Brother laser printers.

Although most Brother printers support a standard printer language such as PCL or PostScript, 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.

axelsommerfeldt commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser seems to be dead since more than 2 years and it seems Pull Requests will not be handled anymore. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/brlaser/ fails building for "newer" versions of EL resp. Fedora, and therefore not a single successful build could be found there: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/brlaser/builds/

For this reason the official Fedora package printer-driver-brlaser (offered in the regular Fedora repository) is based on a fork which includes some corrections and supports more (recent) Brother printers as well: https://github.com/ondrejbudai/brlaser

Addendum: See also: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/pull/92