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https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser

Brother laser printer driver
https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser

brother cups printer printer-driver

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brlaser: Brother laser printer driver

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brlaser is a CUPS driver for Brother laser printers.



Although most Brother printers support a standard printer language

such as PCL or PostScript, not all do. If you have a monochrome

Brother laser printer (or multi-function device) and the other open

source drivers don't work, this one might help.



This driver has been reported to work with these printers:



* Brother DCP-1510 series

* Brother DCP-1600 series

* Brother DCP-7030

* Brother DCP-7040

* Brother DCP-7055

* Brother DCP-7055W

* Brother DCP-7060D

* Brother DCP-7065DN

* Brother DCP-7080

* Brother DCP-L2500D series

* Brother DCP-L2520D series

* Brother DCP-L2520DW series

* Brother DCP-L2540DW series

* Brother HL-1110 series

* Brother HL-1200 series

* Brother HL-2030 series

* Brother HL-2140 series

* Brother HL-2220 series

* Brother HL-2270DW series

* Brother HL-5030 series

* Brother HL-L2300D series

* Brother HL-L2320D series

* Brother HL-L2340D series

* Brother HL-L2360D series

* Brother HL-L2375DW series

* Brother HL-L2390DW

* Brother MFC-1910W

* Brother MFC-7240

* Brother MFC-7360N

* Brother MFC-7365DN

* Brother MFC-7420

* Brother MFC-7460DN

* Brother MFC-7840W

* Brother MFC-L2710DW series

* Lenovo M7605D



Other printers

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If your printer isn't included in the list above, just try selecting

any entry marked 'brlaser' and see if it works.



If it does, please create a new issue here in Github and include the

output of this command:



    sudo lpinfo --include-schemes usb -l -v



Then I'll be able to add a proper entry for your printer.



Installation

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Some operating systems already ship this driver. This is the case for

at least Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Raspbian, openSUSE, NixOS, Arch Linux 

and Guix.

Look for a package named `printer-driver-brlaser`.



You'll also need Ghostscript, in case that's not installed

automatically.



Once brlaser is installed, you can add your printer using the usual

CUPS interface.



Building from source

--------------------



To compile brlaser you'll need CMake and the CUPS development packages

(libcups2-dev, libcupsimage2-dev or similar).



Get the code by cloning the git repo . Compile and install with these commands:



    cmake .

    make

    sudo make install



It might be needed to restart CUPS after this.



[latest release]: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/releases/latest



Copyright

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Copyright © 2013 Peter De Wachter



brlaser is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.



brlaser is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with brlaser.  If not, see .