On 2020-06-26 14:42, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2020-06-26 13:23, Rocky Hotas wrote:On giu 25 14:18, Greg Troxel wrote:That doesn't really surprise me if the printer expects postscript. You omitted the model from your email.As in a previous answer to this thread, it is Brother MFC L2750DN.Looking at the documentation, the following list of printers supports PCL6, BR-Script3 and PDF:DCP-L2550DN/MFC-L2730DW/MFC-L2750DW.Any other model apparently do not have any kind of printer emulation capability. I suspect BR-Script3 is Brothers own print handling/layout/formatting/whatever protocol, and that is the only protocol supported on other models.So you need to get the things you want printed formatted using that protocol. Postscript is obviously not supported on any of them, and PCL and PDF only on some models.
By the way, the next step here is to check in the menu system of the printer if you can set the printer emulation. If you can, then set it to PCL then, and then do the printf | netcat thing. Hopefully that should then work...
If you don't have a setting for printer emulation, I would say that then you are stuck with the proprietary format, and your best bet is CUPS.
If you can do PCL, then you just need something that can translate whatever documents you have to PCL, and you can just throw that at port 9100.
Johnny
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