[cups] Setting up a brother that can do duplex, to make it do duplex?

[Helge Blicke]

Gene,
though I myself do not own a 
Brother printer, I proposed to several
List participants to use Brother's 
BR-script which seems to be a fairly
good PostScript 3 emulation. The best way to get the suitable PPD is to
copy it from a Windows 7 (or even,
sigh, from an outdated XP) installation.
This requires, of course, that the printer
is equipped with this option.

Helge


> Am 29.10.2016 um 04:42 schrieb Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>:
> 
>> On Friday 28 October 2016 18:40:24 Jerry wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:08:44 -0400, Gene Heskett stated:
>>> Greetings;
>>> 
>>> Asking here because its a PITA to try and talk to Brother, they know
>>> zip about linux or cups. Folks here are generally quite
>>> knowledgeable, and I appreciate it.
>>> 
>>> If I want to use this printers 11x17 print mode, I found I had to
>>> setup a profile just for 11x17 paper.  Thats understandable. Feeding
>>> the paper straight in is a PIMA, but thats the rules of this game.
>>> 
>>> But for normal printing, it seems as if I ought to be able to select
>>> the tray of paper to use, and whether or not I can want duplex, with
>>> either tray, or even paper orientation vs image on the paper.  Or
>>> paper weight.
>>> 
>>> But I can't, so I gave up and just let it use tray 1 full of heavy,
>>> glossy on both sides, photo paper for a 50 page B&W text job.  Then
>>> it came out wrong side up and to put it in page order, I had to turn
>>> a 50 page, nearly a pound of paper over one page at a time. Not to
>>> mention that each page laid on the stack, must be held there for a
>>> couple seconds to keep it from floating off the table, which is
>>> level.
>>> 
>>> I am beginning to think I am going to have to add 3 or 4 more
>>> "Printers", each one configured to do just a single style of job.
>>> 
>>> Is this the usual procedure, or are the brother drivers being super
>>> pickity about what they deign to do?
>>> 
>>> Thanks everybody.
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>> 
>> I have two Brothers printers, both laser jets, and they work
>> reasonably well. Not as well as they do under Windows, but I am on a
>> FreeBSD machine and Brother does not make drivers for FreeBSD.
>> 
>> Brother does make drivers for Linux,
>> http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&
>> comple=on&redirect=on
> 
> I think I am useing those.
> 
>> You did not mention what model printer you have.
> 
> MFC-J6920DW, and its a fully uptodate debian wheezy install on quad core 
> amd64 hardware.
> 
>> In my case, they did 
>> not have a specific PPD file for my printer, so I copied the PPD file
>> that came with the Brother printer. It was supposed to work under
>> Windows; however, it worked fine under CUPS.
>> 
> Humm, never gave that a passing thought, my bad. I don't recall looking 
> on the cd that came with it.  I'll do that tomorrow if I can find it.
> 
>> You should probably check out this page too:
>> http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/evaluation.html?c=us_ot&lan
>> g=en&redirect=on
> 
> BTDT, is where I got these drivers.  Even for a wheezy install, they are 
> all ancient.
> 
> Thanks for the nudge in the ribs, Jerry.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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