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brlaser: Brother laser printer driver
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brlaser is a CUPS driver for Brother laser printers.
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Although most Brother printers support a standard printer language
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such as PCL or PostScript, not all do. If you have a monochrome
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Brother laser printer (or multi-function device) and the other open
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source drivers don't work, this one might help.
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2018-01-28 22:34:10 +01:00
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This driver is known to work with these printers:
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2018-01-28 22:34:10 +01:00
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* Brother DCP-1510
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2014-06-30 22:21:22 +02:00
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* Brother DCP-7030
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2018-01-29 08:06:48 +01:00
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* Brother DCP-7040
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2014-11-25 00:02:23 +01:00
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* Brother DCP-7055
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2016-01-28 10:57:04 +01:00
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* Brother DCP-7055W
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2014-06-30 22:21:22 +02:00
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* Brother DCP-7065DN
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* Brother HL-L2300D
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2018-03-17 12:15:49 +01:00
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* Brother HL-L2360DW
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2018-03-13 22:07:13 +01:00
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* Brother MFC-7240
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2017-10-14 21:55:30 +02:00
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* Brother MFC-7360N
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Other printers
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If your printer isn't included in the list above, just try selecting
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any entry marked 'brlaser' and see if it works.
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If it does, please create a new issue here in Github and include the
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output of this command:
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sudo lpinfo --include-schemes usb -l -v
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Then I'll be able to add a proper entry for your printer.
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2017-12-09 08:04:29 +01:00
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Installation
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Some operating systems already ship this driver. This is the case for
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at least Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian, openSUSE, NixOS and Arch Linux.
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Look for a package named `printer-driver-brlaser`.
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You'll also need Ghostscript, in case that's not installed
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automatically.
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Once brlaser is installed, you can add your printer using the usual
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CUPS interface.
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Building from source
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To compile brlaser you'll need CMake and the CUPS development packages
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(libcups2-dev, libcupsimage2-dev or similar).
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Get the code by cloning the git repo <!-- or downloading the [latest
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release] -->. Compile and install with these commands:
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cmake .
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make
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sudo make install
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It might be needed to restart CUPS after this.
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[latest release]: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/releases/latest
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Copyright
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---------
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Copyright © 2013 Peter De Wachter
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brlaser is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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brlaser is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with brlaser. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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