Re: [opensuse] Upgrading my Brother HL-1250 printer On Tuesday 19 February 2008 01:49:39 Joe Morris wrote:
> On 02/19/2008 04:50 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > I wrote to the mfr of the printer, enquiring if there is a driver
> > that would upgrade my printer to Postscript support. In answer, I was
> > told to d/l this file:
> >
> > cupswrapperHL1250-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > Two questions:
> > 1) This seems not to be a 64bit file; can I use it in my x86_64
> > machine?
>
> Probably not without modification, i.e. path, and maybe more.
>
> > 2) There is a dependency problem with it: it reqpires lpr (which,
> > from the name, I would have thought to be already on the machine from
> > the beginning). YaST doesn't offer a file of that name, but only
> > another called lprng, which it claims to be an enhanced lpr. But
> > lprng won't install because of conflict with a 64bit file with the
> > same name.
>
> Don't use it, that is an older printing system than cups.

That's why I was surprised to see that the driver, which is called a "CUPS 
driver" is dependendant upon it.

> > What to do? Is there a way to use the new driver?
>
> I would recommend to just use the correct cups driver for your printer.
> If there is not one listed for that model already, download it from
> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-1250 and
> make sure you get the cups ppd file, found at
> http://openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.cgi?driver=hl1250&printer=Brother-H
>L-1250&show=0 and it should work just fine.  It will know how to render
> the postscript output to a suitable printer driver language your
> printer supports.
>
> --
> Joe Morris
> Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64

Thank you...

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel


