Success with Brother MFC-L2710DW 4 in 1

[Brian]

On Wed 23 Jan 2019 at 12:44:04 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:16 PM Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >:
> 
> > There aren't any CUPS-supplied drivers, in fact, there are no drivers at
> > all. It just works.
> >
> > (You would have to specify exactly what it is you need from the printing
> > system to advance a persuasive argument).
> >
> I don't know if this will help.
> 
> I've had a Brother HL-2240D for a couple of years now, and I thought I
> had to go to the Brother site to grab the right .ppd file for it to
> work with my system.
> 
> However, it's configured as:
> 
> Device URL: usb://Brother/HL-2240D%20series?serial=G1N406058
> Make and Model: Brother HL-2240D Foomatic/hl1250
> 
> and the .ppd is /etc/cups/ppd/HL-2240D-series.ppd (yup, the cups driver).
> 
> Before that. I had another Brother laser printer that required a .ppd

A stone-age printer.

-- 
Brian.