Printing to a network printer: Brother DCP-L2540DW?

[Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson]

Dear c.o.o.misc,

In hope there is someone still using this newsgroup.

I am runnig ArcaOS in a VirtualBox, and since I have internet access,
I presume I can also talk to the local net. Is there a way to configure
my Brother DCP-L2540DW printer with CUPS, or any other current OS/2
printing technology? Alternatively, I can maybe connect to a print
server running in the host system, Windows 10? Though my preference
is the network printer itself, since that experience translates to a
physical machine as well.

What do I have to look into before I start to blindly test if it might
work?

[Andreas Kohl]

Post by Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
Dear c.o.o.misc,
In hope there is someone still using this newsgroup.
I am runnig ArcaOS in a VirtualBox, and since I have internet access,
I presume I can also talk to the local net. Is there a way to configure
my Brother DCP-L2540DW printer with CUPS, or any other current OS/2
printing technology?

You can connect via LPR/LPD, Port 9100, IPP or FTP to the printer. So
uploading a PostScript file to the printer's ftp server should be the
first attempt. For creation of printer objects PCL6 (HP Laserjet 4000
from LASERJET.DRV) and PostScript Level 3 (PSCRIPT.DRV) can be used. You
can extract the ppd file from the Windows BRScript driver package (pkzip
/fix) available from Brother's website.

--
Andreas

[Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson]

Post by Andreas Kohl

Post by Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
Dear c.o.o.misc,
In hope there is someone still using this newsgroup.
I am runnig ArcaOS in a VirtualBox, and since I have internet access,
I presume I can also talk to the local net.  Is there a way to configure
my Brother DCP-L2540DW printer with CUPS, or any other current OS/2
printing technology?

You can connect via LPR/LPD, Port 9100, IPP or FTP to the printer. So
uploading a PostScript file to the printer's ftp server should be the
first attempt. For creation of printer objects PCL6 (HP Laserjet 4000
from LASERJET.DRV) and PostScript Level 3 (PSCRIPT.DRV) can be used. You
can extract the ppd file from the Windows BRScript driver package (pkzip
/fix) available from Brother's website.

Thank you. I am restarting this project after some time. I discovered
that my printer's FTP service is "offline" and I don't know how to turn
it on. The services that are enabled include LPD and IPP; APIPA, SNMP,
Raw Port and WebServices -- whatever those are.

Is there a command line tool, or something else, that I can use to send
a postscript file to the LPD service on my printer? Preferably some-
thing I don't have to download separately. I did not find a quick help
for the lpr and lpq commands I do have.

I already have the printer configured on Windows 10, can I extract the
ppd files from that installation, or do I have to download this BRScript
package you mentioned?