Debian Bug report logs - #635157
Brother HL-2130 laser printer support

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: michalng@gmail.com

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Package: NA - wishlist bug

Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:40:21 +0000

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Package: NA
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This is a wishlist bug.

Using Squeeze and wanted to install a new Brother HL-2130 laser printer.
Noticed that the printer is not in the printer list from Debian.

Went to Brother's Linux driver site  
(http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2130),
download the packages and everthing works well.

Suggest to update Debian's driver list (since Brother is providing them) so  
that these working drivers can be added to benefit future users.

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Message #14 received at 635157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

To: michalng@gmail.com

Cc: 635157@bugs.debian.org, cups@packages.debian.org

Subject: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:51:51 -0500

retitle 635157 Brother HL-2130 laser printer support
severity 635157 important
severity 618640 important
reassign 635157 cups
quit

Hi,

michalng@gmail.com wrote:

> Using Squeeze and wanted to install a new Brother HL-2130 laser printer.
> Noticed that the printer is not in the printer list from Debian.
>
> Went to Brother's Linux driver site
> (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2130),
> download the packages and everthing works well.
>
> Suggest to update Debian's driver list (since Brother is providing them) so
> that these working drivers can be added to benefit future users.

Thanks for a nice report.  I'm passing it on to the Debian CUPS
maintainers with this message.

Message #25 received at 635157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <635157@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: michalng@gmail.com, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Subject: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box

Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:49:55 +0000

severity 635157 wishlist
thanks


Some idea of the technical aspects in packaging a driver for the HL-2130
can be gleaned from

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-laser/+bug/524779

There may also be an issue with licensing which would make such a
package unsuitable for Debian Main:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/25966

Comment #6 is the one to take note of.

Regards,

Brian.

Message #32 received at 635157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

To: Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <635157@bugs.debian.org>, michalng@gmail.com, openprinting-ppd@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:17:57 -0500

reassign 635157 openprinting-ppds 
tags 635157 + upstream
affects 635157 + cups
quit

Hi,

Brian Potkin wrote:
>> michalng wrote:

>>> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2130
[...]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-laser/+bug/524779
[...]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/25966

This means a goal would be to get a driver included in a simple, free,
and distro-neutral collection such as openprinting-ppds and listed at
<http://www.openprinting.org/drivers>.

Michal, does the HL-2130 work as a generic postscript printer?  (I am
guessing it does, based on a quick glance at the ppd and since the
HL-2140 can act as one.)

Brother's PPD for this model is licensed under the GPL.  Their driver
package also includes some binary-only components to configure the
printer, unfortunately without an explicit license that would even
allow us to distribute it, so probably any open source driver is going
to lack some functionality in the short term.

The free part of the driver is not listed at
<http://www.openprinting.org/driver/Postscript-Brother/> as having
been incorporated into openprinting-ppds yet.  Reassigning to the
foomatic-db package to pursue that.

Thanks for some useful pointers.
Jonathan

Message #45 received at 635157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>

To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 635157@bugs.debian.org

Cc: michalng@gmail.com

Subject: Re: Bug#635157: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:55:04 +0000

On Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 03:17:57 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> This means a goal would be to get a driver included in a simple, free,
> and distro-neutral collection such as openprinting-ppds and listed at
> <http://www.openprinting.org/drivers>.
> 
> Michal, does the HL-2130 work as a generic postscript printer?  (I am
> guessing it does, based on a quick glance at the ppd and since the
> HL-2140 can act as one.)
> 
> Brother's PPD for this model is licensed under the GPL.  Their driver
> package also includes some binary-only components to configure the
> printer, unfortunately without an explicit license that would even
> allow us to distribute it, so probably any open source driver is going
> to lack some functionality in the short term.
> 
> The free part of the driver is not listed at
> <http://www.openprinting.org/driver/Postscript-Brother/> as having
> been incorporated into openprinting-ppds yet.  Reassigning to the
> foomatic-db package to pursue that.
> 
> Thanks for some useful pointers.

JFTR and to keep the history of this issue relatively up-to-date:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/12/msg00078.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/12/msg00082.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/12/msg00089.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856

Regards,

-- 
Brian.

Message #50 received at 635157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 635157@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>, michalng@gmail.com

Subject: Re: Bug#635157: cups: please support Brother HL-2130 laser printer out of the box

Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:13:57 +0200

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 03:17:57AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> reassign 635157 openprinting-ppds 
> tags 635157 + upstream
> affects 635157 + cups
> quit
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Brian Potkin wrote:
> >> michalng wrote:
> 
> >>> http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2130
> [...]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-laser/+bug/524779
> [...]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/25966
> 
> This means a goal would be to get a driver included in a simple, free,
> and distro-neutral collection such as openprinting-ppds and listed at
> <http://www.openprinting.org/drivers>.
> 
> Michal, does the HL-2130 work as a generic postscript printer?  (I am
> guessing it does, based on a quick glance at the ppd and since the
> HL-2140 can act as one.)

The HL-2140 Foomatic/hl1250 (up to 600x600 dpi, 1200x600 dpi eats the
first pages) and Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e work. hl1250 has more grey levels:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JulianAndresKlode/posts/UMZh4xreNu2

The postscript driver does not work, it just prints (many?) empty
pages.
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