brlaser
Brother laser printer driver (by pdewacht)
escpos-php
PHP library for printing to ESC/POS-compatible thermal and impact printers (by mike42)
| brlaser | escpos-php | |
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| 14 | 8 | |
| 569 | 2,470 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| C++ | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
escpos-php
Posts with mentions or reviews of escpos-php.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
- Printing Not Working
- Linux Mint receipt printer not working
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Virus scan on my stablehost installment
The "whole Mike42 directory" is the escpos-php dependency used for the thermal printer functionality declared here, and yes, it's therefore meant to be there.
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I need away to send print text to POS printer via Windows ATI/Tools since I wasn't able to do it in PHP
The receipts are in Arabic which escpos-php didn't support , currently it's flips the letter on the opposite direction and they are not connected ( eke what Arabic should be )
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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
Alright, so we have the printer hooked up, the Raspberry Pi good to go, but now I need a way to send data to the printer from the Raspberry Pi. This could easily be accomplished with Node or Python, but since I'm a PHP developer and I enjoy stretching the limitations of the language, I'll reach for that. Luckily for me, there's a pretty solid library for working with ESC/POS commands available in PHP.
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Build Warehouse and Store Management System - Pt. 3
ESCPOS PHP from Michael Billington
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Sending Raw Base64 to PrintNode using PHP
Mike42 / escpos-php package
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Printing problem
Great. I investigated a little bit, the guy from the website made a PHP library: https://github.com/mike42/escpos-php Have you tried it?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing brlaser and escpos-php 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
PrintNode-PHP - PHP API Library For PrintNode Remote Printing Service
CUPS - Apple CUPS Sources
Design Patterns PHP - sample code for several design patterns in PHP 8
canon_mc-g02_resetter - Use Arduino to reset the chip inside your Canon printer's MC-G02/G01 Maintenance Cartridge, reuse it almost forever.
Symfony - The Symfony PHP framework
nix-config
receiptline - Markdown for receipts. Printable digital receipts. Generate receipt printer commands and images.
cups-sharing - Sharing server for CUPS 3.0
Yii2 - Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework
packer-builder-arm - Packer plugin to build ARM images
github-receipts - Source code that powers my GitHub issues receipt printer
brlaser vs docker-cups-airprint
escpos-php vs PrintNode-PHP
brlaser vs CUPS
escpos-php vs Design Patterns PHP
brlaser vs canon_mc-g02_resetter
escpos-php vs Symfony
brlaser vs nix-config
escpos-php vs receiptline
brlaser vs cups-sharing
escpos-php vs Yii2
brlaser vs packer-builder-arm
escpos-php vs github-receipts