[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring Brother MFC-7360N on Hipster How?

[John D Groenveld]

In message <e1835e0c-4a54-8f78-0393-7f4c3b4520eb at ndsu.edu>, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss writes:
>If you can find a script named "rpm2cpio" (it's a shell script), it will
>run on OI.  If you can't find a copy let me know, I can send you the
>one I have.

<URL:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/manifest/0/package%2Frpm@1.4%2C5.11-2020.0.1.0%3A20200330T113500Z>

>Something like:
>
> 	rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -idv
>
>should extract all the file contents.

Almost certainly includes a Linux binary for the CUPS filter.

However, ISTR the source for it on one of the myriad of Brother
websites.

There's also a FOSS CUPS filter:
<URL:https://www.freshports.org/print/brlaser>
<URL:https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser>

Step 1: Update the printer firmware.
Step 2: cat(1)/nc(1) some text to the printer.
Step 3. cat(1)/nc(1) some PostScript or PDF to the printer.
Step 4. Get the CUPS filter built.
Step 5. Configure CUPS.

John
groenveld at acm.org