[cups] Using a network enabled printer from a lappy

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

Trying to make a network printer work from my lappy.

It is addressed at a local network ipv4 address, and cups can see it, but 
its a brother (both are in fact) that needs its own ppd's from brother.

I have them but no quick and dirty way to get them from this machine to 
the lappy, and finding Brothers ppd's on their site is a drag as they 
make the linux drivers everything but invisible.

So, since its all on the same local 192.168.xx.yy network, how do I go 
about relaying the printjob to this machine, so that this machine then 
processes the job and prints it?

And its a bit strange, I have another machine on this same local network 
as the printer, and I cannot find a mention of any printer except the 
default .PDF generator anyplace in the /etc/cups tree.

But if I fire up a copy of the editor, geany and ask it to print a file, 
every printer available on this main machine, is available for use by 
that machine.  Ditto on 2 other machines of my local network, but not 
from the lappy.  Best I seem to be able to do is to see it, but the 
filter failed.

Clues please.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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