I installed the standard driver but my printer is coming up with :- ERROR NAME:     undefined COMMAND:     -2345X@PJL OPERAND STACK: Looking like its a BR-Script3 issiue

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 07:47, Samuel Sieb <[1]samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote: On 10/18/19 10:16 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: > I installed the standard driver but my printer is coming up with :- > > ERROR NAME: > undefined > COMMAND: > -2345X@PJL > OPERAND STACK: > > Looking like its a BR-Script3 issiue You say the standard driver, but which one is that? The Setting>Devices>Printers says :- HL-5170DN Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3

On 10/19/19 1:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:43:06PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > >> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 07:47, Samuel Sieb <[1]samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; >> wrote: >> >> >> The Setting>Devices>Printers says :- >> HL-5170DN >> Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3 >> > I'm 99% sure that HL-5170DN is NOT A HP PRINTER, but rather a Brother > printer. > > You need to get the proper installer program from the Brother website. > > This is correct. I have HL-5450DN. It's great. One of the best laser printers I've ever had. Always worked well under Fedora.

You can find the drivers here: https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on

Aaron Gray writes: > You can find the drivers here: > > <URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html? > c=us_ot&amp;lang=en&amp;comple=on&amp;redirect=on>https://support.brother. > com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on > > > > Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this go > on bugzilla ? No, it shouldn't. Brother does not apparently release their printer drivers as free software, or publish open specifications so that the free software community can implement by themselves. There's nothing that Fedora can do about that, and a Bugzilla bug will not accomplish anything. All that Brother does is release their drivers as downloadable black boxes. That will hopefully work on your particular Linux distribution. And even if they work well now, there's little that guarantees that they will continue to work the next time the kernel is updated. Or glibc. Or CUPS itself, or any other library the printer driver depends on.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 08:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Aaron Gray writes: >> >>> You can find the drivers here: >>> >>> <URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html? >>> c=us_ot&amp;lang=en&amp;comple=on&amp;redirect=on>https://support.brother. >>> com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=en&comple=on&redirect=on >>> >>> >>> >>> Ah thats great, wondering why the Fedora driver did not work, should this go >>> on bugzilla ? >> No, it shouldn't. Brother does not apparently release their printer drivers >> as free software, or publish open specifications so that the free software >> community can implement by themselves. There's nothing that Fedora can do >> about that, and a Bugzilla bug will not accomplish anything. >> >> All that Brother does is release their drivers as downloadable black boxes. >> That will hopefully work on your particular Linux distribution. And even if >> they work well now, there's little that guarantees that they will continue >> to work the next time the kernel is updated. Or glibc. Or CUPS itself, or >> any other library the printer driver depends on. > All unarguably true, nevertheless I've had a Brother Wifi All-in-one > (DCP-7055W) for over 5 years and haven't had any problems under Fedora, > both printing and scanning (using the blob driver obviously). It will > occasionally get confused if the home network goes down, but a quick > power cycle sorts it out. > My first Brother printer (HL-2070N) was automatically recognized by my Centos sysstem (C4 or 5, I think)which, when the USB cable was plugged in said it had recognized a BrotherHL-2070N and asked if I wanted it automatically configured. I said YES, and it "just worked", using one of the drivers shipped with Linux Now they need the brother proprietary drivers, but they still work well on my newer Centos systems (haven't tried on C8 yet). Fred

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 01:36, Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker(a)doomd.net&gt; wrote: > On 10/19/19 1:24 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:43:06PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > >> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 07:47, Samuel Sieb <[1]samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> The Setting>Devices>Printers says :- > >> HL-5170DN > >> Model: HL-5170DN BR-Script3 > > I'm 99% sure that HL-5170DN is NOT A HP PRINTER, but rather a Brother > > printer. > > > > You need to get the proper installer program from the Brother website. > > > This is correct. I have HL-5450DN. It's great. One of the best laser > printers I've ever had. Always worked well under Fedora. > > You can find the drivers here: > > > https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot&lang=e... > > Hi Derrik, I cannot find the i686 64 bit drivers. can only find this :- https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-5170DN And get :- package hl5170dnlpr-1.1.2-1.i386 does not verify: no digest with the i386 driver. - Derrik > > > Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE > dwalker(a)doomd.net > > "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Aaron Gray Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.