brlaser
Brother laser printer driver (by pdewacht)
packer-builder-arm
Packer plugin to build ARM images (by mkaczanowski)
| brlaser | packer-builder-arm | |
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| 14 | 1 | |
| 569 | 306 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.1 | |
| 9 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
packer-builder-arm
Posts with mentions or reviews of packer-builder-arm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-04.
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The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network
I tried the packer-builder-arm first, but it couldn't run my Ansible playbook due to a bug. I applied a patch but quickly ran into other issues.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing brlaser and packer-builder-arm 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
amber - Reflective PE packer.
escpos-php - PHP library for printing to ESC/POS-compatible thermal and impact printers
packer-plugin-arm-image - Packer plugin for ARM images
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.
terratest - Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
nix-config
printer-rpi-image - Packer config to build RaspiOS image with cups and RAW printers
cups-sharing - Sharing server for CUPS 3.0
EdPaper - Helps you organizing your paperwork
brlaser vs docker-cups-airprint
packer-builder-arm vs amber
brlaser vs escpos-php
packer-builder-arm vs packer-plugin-arm-image
brlaser vs CUPS
packer-builder-arm vs CUPS
brlaser vs canon_mc-g02_resetter
packer-builder-arm vs terratest
brlaser vs nix-config
packer-builder-arm vs printer-rpi-image
brlaser vs cups-sharing
brlaser vs EdPaper