Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

[Lee]

Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers?
On Apr 28, 2014 11:07 AM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

> | From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
>
> | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with
> | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver
> recommended
> | by the RH printer tool didn't work for me.
> |
> | I've printed to it from Centos 6.5, Fedora 19, and Fedora 20, so far.
> | I've used the scanner portion only from Centos, so far, where it did
> | work.
>
> I've used it with Fedora 18, 19, CentOS 5, and Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> I just installed the drivers on my Fedora 20 system, and it's not
> quite working.
>
> First of all, I'm not sure the best way to talk over the network with
> the printer.  Both of these URIs seem to work:
>         dnssd://Brother%20DCP-7065DN._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
>         lpd://redpaper.mimosa.com
>
> I think that the first uses the IPP protocol and the second is using
> the old UNIX "line printer daemon" protocol.  Perhaps even HP's
> jetdirect could be used.
>
> I put holes in the firewall for IPP, IPP-client
>
> In any case, printing works, but the settings are unreliable.
>
> One print job came out as if I had legal size paper loaded (so there
> was extra margin on the top and the bottom was chopped).
>
> Another came out the single page image scrunched into a quarter of the
> paper as if the software were trying to print four pages in one.
>
> In both cases, the settings I specified were as I wanted them, not as
> the result appeared.
>
> I was using these drivers from the Brother site:
>         cupswrapperDCP7065DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm
>         dcp7065dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm
>
> BTW, I was able to get scanning to work.  Mind you, I have only
> scanned one page.  I had to hole the firewall:
>         sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=54925-54926/udp
>         sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=54925-54926/udp
> In the past, the page sizing of scanning has been somewhat unreliable.  I
> don't know if this is still true.
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