[cups] Brother HL-L8250CDN

[Rick Cochran]

If you become desperate, I had a very good experience with these folks:

http://www.turboprint.info/

It was about 10 years ago and I needed a driver for a Canon inkjet.

I don't see your Brother model there, but you can submit a request.

As I remember, you get lifetime support, but that could have changed.

It's a bit pricey, but these people are fighting against "proprietary" formats. 
  I felt pretty good paying their price.

Yours,
-Rick


On 8/20/15, 5:40 AM, Ruben De Smet wrote:
> On 18-08-15 12:40, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 11:48 +0200, Ruben De Smet wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My system: Fedora 22 64 bit on Intel.
>>>
>>> I bought a Brother HL-L8250CDN some time ago. I used Brother's
>>> proprietary drivers (as network printer) since then. I recently
>>> upgraded
>>> to Fedora 22 and the old drivers stopped working.
>>
>> Heh.  I have a Brother DCP-7040 which was given to me as a gift from
>> somebody who doesn't really realize the importance of open hardware.
>>   My gut instinct was to take it back and return it for something open
>> like an HP but I also noticed that Brother had that proprietary driver
>> support at the time and decided to give them a shot.
>>
>> Now that I too have upgraded to Fedora 22 (actually I think it was
>> Fedora 21 where it broke) I have a boat anchor.  Well, to be honest,
>> the printing works but the scanning doesn't, but scanning is just as
>> important as printing around here.  And printing actually only kind of
>> works.  It doesn't work with SELinux in enforcing mode.
>>
>> So my initial/gut reaction was of course correct and I should not have
>> trusted that Brother would support this driver because they don't.  All
>> they would tell me is that it worked for them (which I am skeptical of
>> to be honest) and that they would not go to any effort at all to figure
>> out why it didn't work for me despite my sending them debug info and my
>> willingness to send any additional info.
>>
>> Anyway, the TL;DR of it all is that I will NEVER, EVER buy another
>> Brother anything.  They have showed just how uninterested in supporting
>> customers that they are and so I will not patronize a company with that
>> kind of non-support attitude.
>>
>> And, well, then there is the whole non-open hardware thing.  I
>> generally don't support companies that operate like that and I should
>> have stuck to my principles in this case and I wouldn't have a boat
>> anchor now.
>>
>> So my advice to every/anyone is to avoid Brother [printers].
>>
>>> The open source driver that 'just works' is called "Generic PCL 6/PCL
>>> XL
>>> Printer".
>>
>> Yeah.  This one I have is completely proprietary without any PCL or PS,
>> emulated or otherwise so I won't even benefit from that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> b.
>>
>
> Well, if you know of any open hardware color laser printer which I can
> afford, go ahead. I am in favor of it too, but I don't know whether one
> even exists.
>
> I sent this e-mail to openprinting [at] linuxfoundation.org too, but
> didn't get a reply.
>
> I wouldn't mind reverse engineering some stuff here, if that way I can
> contribute Brother drivers and have my color printing back.
>
> My model doesn't have a scanner though, so no reversing there.
>
> The main problem is that I don't know where to start reversing, or where
> to contribute the code. Heck I don't even know what programming language
> CUPS uses. Probably C, C++ or ObjC.
>
> So, if someone can guide me where I can look at some examples, I'll fire
> up a Fedora 20 with the proprietary drivers, look at the network traffic
> and mess with it until I have them reversed.
>
> I just have to make sure not to spill all of my toner and paper ;-)
>
>
>
>
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