[OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing issues

[John D Groenveld]

In message <591812e7-acc1-4de9-a4fe-0fc5ac532ad6 at Duedinghausen.eu>, Stephan Althaus writes:
>Almost any driver that uses PCL or postscript should enable you to print 
>"something", regardless if its brother or something different.

Indeed.
A good starting point is confirming that you can spew text and then the
printer's PCL.
$ nc brother-mfc-l3740cdw 9100 < /etc/hosts

Brother's specifications say it can handle PDF:
<URL:https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/htmldoc/mfc/cv_dcpl3520cdw/uke/html/GUID-F119590A-C4FB-4CB7-A6D1-FC0E8724BF3F_1.html?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=mfcl3740cdw_eu>

John
groenveld at acm.org