[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#635157: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box

[Jonathan Nieder]

reassign 635157 openprinting-ppds 
tags 635157 + upstream
affects 635157 + cups
quit

Hi,

Brian Potkin wrote:
>> michalng wrote:

>>> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2130
[...]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-laser/+bug/524779
[...]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/25966

This means a goal would be to get a driver included in a simple, free,
and distro-neutral collection such as openprinting-ppds and listed at
<http://www.openprinting.org/drivers>.

Michal, does the HL-2130 work as a generic postscript printer?  (I am
guessing it does, based on a quick glance at the ppd and since the
HL-2140 can act as one.)

Brother's PPD for this model is licensed under the GPL.  Their driver
package also includes some binary-only components to configure the
printer, unfortunately without an explicit license that would even
allow us to distribute it, so probably any open source driver is going
to lack some functionality in the short term.

The free part of the driver is not listed at
<http://www.openprinting.org/driver/Postscript-Brother/> as having
been incorporated into openprinting-ppds yet.  Reassigning to the
foomatic-db package to pursue that.

Thanks for some useful pointers.
Jonathan