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Brother laser printer driver
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Driver for MFC-7860DW? #187

Open qwertychouskie opened 1 year ago

qwertychouskie commented 1 year ago

I have a MFC-7860DW, and brlaser doesn't seem to support this model. Is there any chance of it being supported in the future?

QORTEC commented 1 year ago

Regarding the MFC-7860DW, when testing the brlaser drivers what issues did you encounter?

Knowing the steps taken and the result would help the author of the driver know; if it's possible to add support for your printer, and what steps need to be taken to so.

qwertychouskie commented 1 year ago

Regarding the MFC-7860DW, when testing the brlaser drivers what issues did you encounter?

Knowing the steps taken and the result would help the author of the driver know; if it's possible to add support for your printer, and what steps need to be taken to so.

There just isn't any option for the MFC-7860DW in the first place.

QORTEC commented 1 year ago

To test weather or not your printer works, you just need to select any brlaser printer driver and try printing.

If you print successfully then connect to your printer via USB and run the following command sudo lpinfo --include-schemes usb -l -v. Then copy and paste the output here.

Once you verified that your printer works and you have submitted your printers info we can add an entry for your printer in the driver.

Note, to test duplex you should select a printer driver with a D for example HL-2270DW.

QORTEC commented 1 year ago

There just isn't any option for the MFC-7860DW in the first place.

brlaser is unofficial driver for brother printers, so we need users to test the driver and submit data in order to add driver entries.

You should be able to print after selecting any driver, though it's best practice to select the closest model available to test all available features.

If after selecting a driver you are unable to print, that means the driver wont work with your printer. Submitting detailed bug report would possibly allow support to be add added in the future.

rathboma commented 11 months ago

Hi. I have this printer. It works with this model. Here is the output:

Device: uri = usb://Brother/MFC-7860DW?serial=U62702J2N470762
        class = direct
        info = Brother MFC-7860DW
        make-and-model = Brother MFC-7860DW
        device-id = MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,PCL,PCLXL;MDL:MFC-7860DW;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother Laser Type1;
        location =
QORTEC commented 11 months ago

Thank you for your report, I've added your printer to my pull request #179 in commit fed695c5e7de5432900624bda42578a4a88e081c.

qwertychouskie commented 11 months ago

@QORTEC Awesome! Hopefully the PR gets merged soon :)

QORTEC commented 11 months ago

We'll see, the maintainer hasn't had much time for brlaser over the last 4 months, and a couple of years before that.

So in the meantime I've started "maintaining" a fork on Owl-Maintain/brlaser in effort to keep the driver in "good order". When he's back it should hopefully be a simple pull, and be ready to push release v6.3.

A side effect of my fork is that some package maintainers have started pulling from my fork in favor of upstream, so if your distribution contains a package of brlaser version of v6.x (qortec/brlaser) or v6.2.x (Owl-Maintain/brlaser) then they will likely update as soon as they notice I've tagged a new release.