Brother 1440 printer on Fedora Core 4

[Neil Cherry]

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:58 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:34 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
>>>> Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
>>>>>> Eric Beversluis wrote:

>>> OK. I'll try that. It seems strange to link an non-running and
>>> apparently nonexisting daemon to something. But if it worked for you I'm
>>> game.  I'll let you know what happens.
>> I think it stops the rpm from running the post install script. The
>> problem I had was selecting the correct URI for the networked
>> printer. I finally got http://printer/ipp/port1 to work and not
>> split out a billion blank pages.
> 
> It seems to have worked--anyway I've had a test page print out OK. We'll
> see what happens when I reboot (I had it printing once before--don't
> know how--and rebooting screwed things up). Apparently the instruction
> on page
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html
> 
> "To use this driver, you must ensure that the LPR printing system is
> installed and running on your Linux distribution."

Actually they have an FAQ that states you needed to link. Or at
least I found it somewhere on their site. I thought it was
weird also. What does lpd have to do with cups? Go figure ...

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