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[Package request]: brother generic lpr and cupswrapper printer driver #19647

Open anjandev opened 4 years ago

anjandev commented 4 years ago

Download page: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=mfcl2700dw_us_eu_as&os=128

Please download "Generic LPR printer driver (deb package)" and "Generic CUPSwrapper printer driver (deb package)" under printer drivers.

brother's instructions: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=mfcl2700dw_us_eu_as&os=128&dlid=dlf101123_000&flang=4&type3=10032

gentoo's ebuild: https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay/blob/master/net-print/brother-genml1-bin/brother-genml1-bin-3.1.0-r1.ebuild

According to the gentoo wiki, this driver supports DCP-7060D, DCP-7065DN, DCP-8080DN, DCP-L2520DW, DCP-L2540DW, HL-2230, HL-2240, HL-2240D, HL-2270DW, HL-2280DW, HL-5370DW/HL-5370DWT, HL-5440D, HL-5450DN, HL-5470DW, HL-6180DW, HL-L2320D, HL-L2360DW, HL-L2380DW, MFC-7360N, MFC-7460DN, MFC-7860DW, MFC-8480DN, MFC-8510DN, MFC-8710DW, MFC-8890DW, MFC-8910DW, MFC-8950DW, MFC-L2700DW, MFC-L2720DW, MFC-L2740DW.

If someone manages to package this, they would add support to void for a large amount of brother printers. If you need me to test your package, please ping me in your pull request.

Thank you

el-christianito commented 3 years ago

I have been able to create a working template and successfully printed a test page using my network-connected Brother DCP-7065DN. I needed to do some changes due to the contributing guidelines. So I could use some help for testing the new version.

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31429