Added sevral supported printers to brlaser

[QORTEC]

Since I had some extra time I decided to help out adding the supported printers to brlaser.

#66 DCP-L2510D
#87 DCP-L2537DW
#63 HL-2130
#90 HL-L2380DW
#77 MFC-7340
#50 MFC-8710DW
#83 MFC-L3750CDW

[jakubgs]

Any news on this?

[QORTEC]

At it again;

Printers Definitions Added:
#98 DCP-T500W
#88 DCP-T710W
#94 HL-5040
#101 HL-2250DN
#112 HL-L2305
#109 MFC-1810
#115 MFC-7320
#114 MFC-L2700DN

Errors Fixed:

HL-L2380DW

• removed Resolution k 1 0 0 0 "300dpi/300 DPI" since printer support is unknown
• added Duplex rotated since its a duplex printer

MFC-7340

• removed Duplex rotated since its not a duplex printer

HL-2130

• removed Duplex rotated since its not a duplex printer

[QORTEC]

Printers Definitions Added:
#102 DCP-L2550DW
#108 HL-L2310D
#103 HL-L2350DW
#57 MFC-L2750DW
#110 MFC-T910DW

Errors Fixed:

Moved HL-L2305 definition to correct position

• from after HL-L2320D
• to before HL-L2310D

[Rapti]

I can confirm that this fork works with my MFC-7320 on a Raspberry Pi 2B.

[zeroheure]

@QORTEC I've wrote to @pdewacht requesting to have a look. May be you could ask him to co-maintained this driver ?

[QORTEC]

@zeroheure
If it would helpful for @pdewacht, I would be happy to occasionally go through and add driver definitions, it's a simple straightforward process.

Unfortunately that would be the limit of my help, since I don't know c++...

[zeroheure]

I can help on that too. That's why I wrote the wiki page. I don't know C++ neither.
Didn't get answer from @pdewacht yet.

[QORTEC]

I just started to look at the pull request in detail.
Closing this pull request until it is fixed.

[QORTEC]

Everything should be good to go

[QORTEC]

Removed unsupported printers form pull request (Inkjet):
#98 DCP-T500W
#88 DCP-T710W
#110 MFC-T910DW

Corrected ppd file names from earlier in pull request:

• DCP-L2537DW
• DCP-L2550DW
• HL-L2350DW
• MFC-L2700DN
• MFC-L2750DW

Follow the standard naming convention for ModelName:

• HL-2250DN
• HL-2250DN
• MFC-L2750DW
• MFC-L3750CDW

Printers Definitions Added:
#141 Brother DCP-7020
#147 Brother HL-2230
#121 Brother HL-2240D
#128 Brother HL-2280DW
#144 Brother MFC-7440N
#129 Brother MFC-8860DN
#134 Brother MFC-L2700DW
#130 Brother MFC-L2710DN
#142 Lenovo LJ2650DN

I used the ln prefix for the Lenovo .ppd file since there was no predefined prefix.

"Lenovo" is a portmanteau of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", Latin ablative for "new".
Wikipedia

If there are any issues, or you would like some changes let me know.

[QORTEC]

Added FujiXerox DocuPrint P265 dw (#150)

I ended up using the fx prefix for the FujiXerox .ppd

There's something especially satisfying to see other printer brands work with the driver, and I'm not really that involved in the project.

[zeroheure]

Here's the answer from Till Kampeeter

I have written an e-mail to Peter de Wachter now. I hope that he will answer to me as the official printing guru.

I have suggested him to transfer brlaser to OpenPrinting. I f he answers and I succeed, it will be simple for you. You post pull requests and I will handle them. If all works fine with your changed I will also give you direct push access

(I guess the "you" is not for me, but collective)

[QORTEC]

Thanks for keeping us updated. It would definitely be nice to have the changes merged and issues closed.

Fork wise I'll probably tag a release sometime tomorrow or the day after, there weren't many changes this time.

[axelsommerfeldt]

Though I will probably be conservative on accepting code changes, since I done know the language well enough to judge code quality. If there anyone who wants to help maintain the code side of the project that would be appreciated.

I could do that. (I'm a professional C/C++ software developer since 1995, and I'm maintaining several LaTeX packages since 1994, currently on GitLab. BUT: I have absolutely no knowledge of writing CUPS drivers yet. So I would not be the best choice for this job.)

Furthermore I would like to comment the sources (using doxygen syntax) since there are only 6 comments (not counting the copyright header) in the complete project C++ files.

[QORTEC]

Though I will probably be conservative on accepting code changes, since I done know the language well enough to judge code quality. If there anyone who wants to help maintain the code side of the project that would be appreciated.

I could do that. (I'm a professional C/C++ software developer since 1995, and I'm maintaining several LaTeX packages since 1994, currently on GitLab. BUT: I have absolutely no knowledge of writing CUPS drivers yet. So I would not be the best choice for this job.)

Thank you any amount of help would be greatly appreciated.

Furthermore I would like to comment the sources (using doxygen syntax) since there are only 6 comments (not counting the copyright header) in the complete project C++ files.

That will definitely help in the long run, thanks again.

Unless poked, I tend to only check back every 2-6 months to respond to issues and add printer definitions. Let me know when there are changes that I should pull in...

[QORTEC]

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays;
I just found the time to create a new release.

Notable additions/changes since last the summery;

Printers Definitions Added:
#107 Brother DCP-7070DW (Pull Request)
#172 Brother DCP-8065DN
#156 Brother HL-L5000D series
#162 Brother HL-L2370DN series

Errors Fixed:
#133 Fixed PCFileName br7365dn.ppd > br7460dn.ppd for MFC-7460DN. (Pull Request)

Changed Code:
#169 Explicitly disabled duplex using standard PCL code. (Pull Request)

Issues Resolved:
#169 Fixing the issue where printer HL-L2350DW continued to duplex even when disabled, however every other page was garbled. (Pull Request)

[QORTEC]

Closing this in favour of pull requests #179 and #180

Pull request #179 based off of the definitions branch, which focuses on adding printer entries to the driver. This pull request (#92) focuses on adding printer entries to the driver.
Given the nature of the changes made, @pdewacht should be able to promptly accept this pull request.

Pull request #180 based off of the code branch, which focuses changes to the codebase. This includes #169, with QORTEC#2 later expanding its functionality to explicitly set simplex, duplex no tumble, and duplex tumble modes
Due to the nature of the changes, @pdewacht will likely want to verify that the code works as expected and doesn't cause any issues

Moving forward, I'll be abandoning QORTEC/brlaser if favour of Owl-Maintain/brlaser. The Owl-Maintain fork is virtually identical to this pull request, with the only difference being an updated README.md and Github Issues Templates on the master branch.