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simple-scan
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Surprised by the support from HP for its printers on Linux
my HP LaserJet MFP 135w goes to 2400 dpi using the HP provided driver (https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/closure/hp-laser-mfp-130-printer-series/24494378/model/24494382?ssfFlag=true&sku= the file uld-hp_V1.00.39.12_00.15.tar.gz) and using simple-scan (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan)
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Printer-driver without scanning-functionality
The printer I'm using has excellent printing-capabilities from within Linux, however it fails completely, when it comes to scanning. I have tried Skanlite and Gnomes Document Scanner, but none of them lists the printer as a scanning-device.
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I don't feel like I can help development, and I don't think it's just imposter syndrome
The Document Scanner project is not in the immediate list, so you need to click "Clone Repository" and enter https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan to get it up and running.
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LTT Linux Challenge - Part 3
Anyhow, if you want to give a go, this is what I've been using -> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan
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No U PNP
> So what do printers have to do with any of this?
The original post was about zeroconf, and therefore the later multicast DNS-SD based discovery protocol [1]. Namely aireplay, airport, airprint, airscan based protocols that multicast their functionality and protocols via DNS to the 224.0.0.251 (or [ff02::fb]) addresses (on port 5353).
Printers these days do have primarily support for airprint + airscan so they work out of the box on MacOS with all the GUIs that the OS has to offer. Not so much for WSD or other protocols that Linux/Windows still need. CUPS or ghostscript support usually isn't complete for anything else than TIFF, because nobody seems to give a damn about implementing a PDF rasterizer on-device, let alone gutenprint or postscript/ghostscript support for their scanner devices.
Reading through the sibling comments you have to recognize that my interpretation of "what is working" is a different one than a developer's perspective. If someone without programming/linux configuration knowledge cannot print or scan via WiFi, your tool is pretty much useless and didn't replace the 100 fragmented alternatives that existed before it already.
My complaints were mostly about avahi's integrated discovery tools like avahi-browse and avahi-discover which are only tools to discover printers, but are themselves useless for printing or scanning on their own (and they're not transport-level libraries for DNS-SD IANA registered protocols either).
Literally the only scanning tool that works in the Linux world is "simple-scan" [2], which requires preinstalled "sane-airscan" and an integrated avahi-daemon in the resolv.conf/nsswitch.conf. Don't ask about parallel IPv4 + IPv6 support, because that's totally unsupported and will crash in multiple NAT scenarios the daemon in an endless loop, and is the reason why every Linux wiki will recommend to add "mdns4_minimal" to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file instead of "mdns_minimal". [3]
Coming back to my point: I mean, every developer can send a postscript file via bash to an IPP port, but I wouldn't call it a working UX or UI. When comparing the aforementioned shitshow with how everything is nicely working on MacOS, Linux is basically a bad joke when it comes to mDNS support. I mean, the technology is almost 15 years old now, and we still can't have nice printer support on Linux.
[1] http://www.dns-sd.org/
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan
[3] e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/avahi
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brlaser
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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.
What are some alternatives?
manjarno - Reasons for which I don't use Manjaro anymore
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mpc-hc - Media Player Classic
escpos-php - PHP library for printing to ESC/POS-compatible thermal and impact printers
snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing
CUPS - Apple CUPS Sources
unmaintained.tech - No Maintenance Intended
canon_mc-g02_resetter - Use Arduino to reset the chip inside your Canon printer's MC-G02/G01 Maintenance Cartridge, reuse it almost forever.
celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv
nix-config
cups-sharing - Sharing server for CUPS 3.0