mcBachmann.de TechBlog » cups http://blog.mcbachmann.de Der Blog zur Website ;-) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Printing: Linux Brother Printer and the DIN A4 Problem http://blog.mcbachmann.de/linux/printing-linux-brother-printer-and-the-din-a4-problem http://blog.mcbachmann.de/linux/printing-linux-brother-printer-and-the-din-a4-problem#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:45:12 +0000 Sven Bachmann http://blog.mcbachmann.de/?p=352 Most of you know it already… if you set your (Brother) printer under CUPS to DIN A4 it will only print with the Letter-margins. But now there is a solution available. Thanks to the German Ubuntu-Wiki.

Update: The DCP-135c doesn’t do borderless very well, so just use “DIN A4″.

Update 2: Fixed typo in sed-command: PaperType was replaced with PageType.

Besides to change the page format in the printer settings to “DIN A4″, you’ll also have to edit your printers description file.

As an example, I’ll show it for the DCP-135c printer.

sudo sed -i 's/PaperType=.*/PaperType=A4/i' \
/usr/Brother/Printer/dcp135c/inf/brdcp135crc

If you have an other Brother printer, look with the file browser where your inf-File in /usr/Brother/Printer is located and change the line above.

After this all, you’ll have to restart cups to accept the changes:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

Good luck :-)

]]> http://blog.mcbachmann.de/linux/printing-linux-brother-printer-and-the-din-a4-problem/feed 0 DCP-110C and DCP-135C with Ubuntu Hardy http://blog.mcbachmann.de/linux/dcp-110c-and-dcp-135c-with-ubuntu-hardy http://blog.mcbachmann.de/linux/dcp-110c-and-dcp-135c-with-ubuntu-hardy#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 11:59:41 +0000 Sven Bachmann http://blog.mcbachmann.de/?p=3 Hi there,

long time ago I wrote an article how to make the DCP-110C running under Ubuntu Feisty. One commenter wrote me, that he got it also to run with Gutsy and Hardy.

Now the time has come and some things are easier :)

Since Hardy (I think) the cups-packages for the DCPs are now included in the package repository. You have to enable the multiverse repo to get it.

After enabling it, run the following command to install the needed printer packages:

  • apt-get install brother-cups-wrapper-extra brother-lpr-drivers-extra

After this you need to add a rule for udev to allow sane to also use the scanner. Put the following content in a file called: /etc/udev/rules.d/55-brothermfc.rules


# Udev rules file for Brother printer products.

ACTION!="add", GOTO="brother_rules_end"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GOTO="pid_test"
SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device", GOTO="brother_rules_end"

LABEL="pid_test"

# Check for DCP 110c.
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0169", OWNER="lp", GROUP="scanner", MODE="0660"

# Check for DCP 135c.
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="01ce", OWNER="lp", GROUP="scanner", MODE="0660"

LABEL="brother_rules_end"

This file was adapted from /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules. Thanks to the authors.

This worked for me and is much easier than the previous steps. But to install the scanner driver you’ll need them – the udev rule is only for making the printer also available to users of the scanner group (don’t forget to add yourself to it).

Bye,
Sven

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