[cups] Brother MFC-L8850CDW

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Peter,

> Does anyone have the Brother MFC-L8850CDW working?

> I connected a Mac to the same network and it printed a test page no
> problem.

The Brother MFC-L8850CDW supports BR-Script3 which is a Postscript clone, so you might be able to copy the PPD file from OS X and modify it slightly to be more generic and work with linux. My workplace doesn't have a MFC-L8850CDW, but I have done OSX PPD modifications for a number of different Brother BR-Script3 printers as well as other makes and models.

e.g. I used the following file from OSX (El Capitan) :
 /Library/Printers/PPDs/Content/Resources/Brother MFC-L2740DW series CUPS.gz
With the following PPD file modifications :

Index: Brother-MFCL2740DW.ppd
===================================================================
--- Brother-MFCL2740DW.ppd      (revision 65)
+++ Brother-MFCL2740DW.ppd      (revision 66)
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 *1284DeviceID: "MFG:Brother;MDL:MFC-L2740DW series"
 *cupsVersion: 1.4
 *cupsManualCopies: False
-*cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 /Library/Printers/Brother/Filter/rastertobrother2300.bundle/Contents/MacOS/rastertobrother2300"
-*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-command 0 /Library/Printers/Brother/Filter/commandtobrother.bundle/Contents/MacOS/commandtobrother"
-*cupsCommands: "ReportLevels PrintSelfTestPage PJLBidirectional PJLWrite PJLRead"
+*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 -"
+*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops"
+*cupsCommands: "AutoConfigure ReportLevels PrintSelfTestPage PJLBidirectional PJLWrite PJLRead"
 *cupsSNMPSupplies: False
 *cupsModelNumber: 11
 *PSVersion: "(3010.106) 3"




Cheers,
Doug