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

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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.