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nabla²
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 Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:20 am Post subject: CUPS with PPD from mac file: working! (Brother HL-5450DN) |
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Hi,
I think about getting a Brother HL-5450DN printer. There are official drivers but they seem to be unnecessary complicated (lpr driver, cups wrapper, ...). On the other hand, Brother offers a PPD for MAC OS. After some fuss extracting the offered dmd file, extracting a pax file... I found the right PPD file. Would you expect it to work? Cups is Cups I guess, at least on the printer description side.
Thanks
EDIT:
While the PPD included in the CUPS-Printer package includes commands like
| Code: | *cupsVersion: 1.4
*cupsManualCopies: False
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 /Library/Printers/Brother/Filter/rastertobrother5450.bundle/Contents/MacOS/rastertobrother5450"
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-command 0 /Library/Printers/Brother/Filter/commandtobrother.bundle/Contents/MacOS/commandtobrother" |
and are thus apparently specific for MacOS systems, the BR-Script Driver PPDs do not included something like this. I guess the latter use directly the PostScript version of Brother, BR-Script3. They could work.
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I tried it and it works!
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