[cups] Brother MFC-L8850CDW

[Ruben De Smet]

Hi,

I have a HL-L8250CDW.

You cannot just use the ppd file. The .deb files include binary
blobs/executables (x86) and shell scripts
(brother_lpdwrapper_mfcl8850cdw) which are called by the ppd file.

You'll have to install the whole .deb file, both of them. The cups thing
is only a wrapper around the lpd driver.

I contacted Brother Belgium. They said they would love to provide free
drivers, but that Brother Japan imposes they cannot release source for
the lpd driver. The cups driver is GPL'd software iirc.

Ruben

On 03/23/2016 07:29 PM, Peter Gantt wrote:
> Does anyone have the Brother MFC-L8850CDW working?
> 
> On Debian 8, cups detects it via Bonjour.
> 
> The model isn't then in the list during "Add Printer".
> 
> For Model, "Brother DCP-1200" is selected by default, but I don't if that's
> because it's a suggestion, or just at the top of the Brother list.  Going
> with this suggestion, and trying a test page, results in 'processing since
> Wed Mar 23 19:19:46 2016  "Printing page 1, 6%"', followed by '"The printer
> is not responding."'
> 
> Instead, I tried the "Or Provide a PPD File" during the model selection
> step.  The PPD file I used was brother_mfcl8850cdw_printer_en.ppd, which I
> extracted from the mfcl8850cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb package file, which I
> downloaded from Brother.
> 
> Now, under Manage Printers, Status shows 'Idle - "File
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_mfcl8850cdw" not available: No
> such file or directory"' (this error message, inconveniently, is not
> available on the page for the actual printer - you have to go to the
> overview "Manage Printers" page to see it).
> 
> Trouble is, I don't know from where I would
> get brother_lpdwrapper_mfcl8850cdw, or what type of file it is.
> 
> I connected a Mac to the same network and it printed a test page no problem.
> 
>   thanks, PSG
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