escpos-php VS brlaser

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.

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 )

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.

ESCPOS PHP from Michael Billington

Mike42 / escpos-php package

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?

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).

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

The only thing that worked for my brother laser on a raspberry pi was an unmaintained driver though.

*brlaser* worked for me https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser

I use: https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser. Works way better than the "official" Brother print drivers. Also, don't forget to install Ghostscript

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.

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...

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.