brlaser
Brother laser printer driver (by pdewacht)
cups-sharing
Sharing server for CUPS 3.0 (by OpenPrinting)
| brlaser | cups-sharing | |
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| 14 | 2 | |
| 569 | 3 | |
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| 0.0 | 4.3 | |
| 9 months ago | 4 months ago | |
| C++ | M4 | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
brlaser
Posts with mentions or reviews of brlaser.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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Sometimes printing is completed without printing
I use a different Brother, but had a similar problem, larger documents wouldn't print or would cutoff. The official br-laser project has not made a release in over 4 years. Meanwhile, there is at least one unreleased patch in the master branch that fixes problems like these. I ended up switching to a fork that is being updated, including the fix(es).
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How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
I have the wired version of this - and it has been fine too. The one issue with the wired version is that there are no good Linux drivers, brlaser [0] kind of works - but fails with certain documents.
[0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
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Surprised by the support from HP for its printers on Linux
The only thing that worked for my brother laser on a raspberry pi was an unmaintained driver though.
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ELI5: why do home printers fail to work as intended so often?
*brlaser* worked for me https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
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REALLY struggling to get my printer to work. Been trying to fix it for forever.
I use: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser. Works way better than the "official" Brother print drivers. Also, don't forget to install Ghostscript
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Today I learned that the Free Software Movement was ignited by a jammed Xerox laser printer
I have no idea, the drivers for mine only come in 32-bit variety and only as deb or rpm, i haven't bothered with them. Brlaser works okay though.
- How the hell do I build this from source in fedora???
- I have just purchased a Brother HL-1112 printer. I see there is an aur packaged but it hasn't been updated for 5 years. Should I use that or build a new one?
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Review: HP's smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up
I bought a Brother HL-L2320D which at the time was the cheapest mono laser with duplexing I could find. On Windows and macOS it's fantastically uneventful, unfortunately on Linux the situation is less great. brlaser [0] does mostly work, but it seems there is a bug as some more complex documents (typically scans) won't print [1]. I ended up patching my version to reduce the size of one of the buffers [2], and haven't seen it fail since, but I doubt I've actually fixed the issue and instead just moved the threshold.
[0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
[1] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/issues/79#issuecomment-7...
[2] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-config/blob/main/overlays/brla...
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The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network
After a couple of DDG searches, I found brlaser - a community-driven Brother driver. Perfect! I installed CUPS, compiled the driver, and shared the printer over the network.
cups-sharing
Posts with mentions or reviews of cups-sharing.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
- problema Installazione stampante su debian 12
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Papercut, Windows Print Server & MacOS computers not printing
CUPS (the print system used by macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS, among others) has marked printer drivers as deprecated since macOS 10.15 Catalina (see for example https://www.cups.org/blog/2018-06-06-demystifying-cups-development.html#printer-drivers-and-why-apple-is-deprecating-them and https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-sharing/issues/4 ). Future versions will require all printers added to be using IPP (e.g. AirPrint or IPP Everywhere) or a "printer application" that presents a non-IPP printer as IPP to the clients. This uses common formats like PDF and JPEG and does not need a manufacturer driver on the machines.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing brlaser and cups-sharing you can also consider the following projects:
docker-cups-airprint - A standalone CUPS and Avahi (mDNS/Bonjour) server, exposing local printers on AirPrint for iOS devices
escpos-php - PHP library for printing to ESC/POS-compatible thermal and impact printers
lprint - A Label Printer Application
CUPS - Apple CUPS Sources
canon_mc-g02_resetter - Use Arduino to reset the chip inside your Canon printer's MC-G02/G01 Maintenance Cartridge, reuse it almost forever.
cups - OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
nix-config
ippsample - IPP sample implementations.
packer-builder-arm - Packer plugin to build ARM images
EdPaper - Helps you organizing your paperwork
brlaser vs docker-cups-airprint
cups-sharing vs docker-cups-airprint
brlaser vs escpos-php
cups-sharing vs lprint
brlaser vs CUPS
cups-sharing vs CUPS
brlaser vs canon_mc-g02_resetter
cups-sharing vs cups
brlaser vs nix-config
cups-sharing vs ippsample
brlaser vs packer-builder-arm
brlaser vs EdPaper