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by Minetti
Wed May 21, 2025 5:10 pm
Forum: Configuring the Retro-Printer Modules
Topic: Brother HL-1210W
Replies: 8
Views: 48515

Re: Brother HL-1210W

One question, after following your procedure something indeed happened as I could see the driver for Brother HL-1210W in the list (see image in my previous message). However, the driver is described as "Brother HL-1210W for CUPS (en)" only, not "Brother HL-1210W for CUPS (en) + Gutenprint v5.3.1 (en ...
by Minetti
Sat May 17, 2025 7:42 pm
Forum: Configuring the Retro-Printer Modules
Topic: Brother HL-1210W
Replies: 8
Views: 48515

Re: Brother HL-1210W

Hi, thanks for the instructions. I tried the install and it copied all the files. There were a couple errors, like "E: Invalid operation virt-manager" and
"/var/lib/dpkg/info/hl1210wlpr.postinst: 3: /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl1210wlpr.postinst: /opt/brother/Printers/HL1210W/inf/braddprinter: Exec format ...
by Minetti
Fri May 16, 2025 9:41 pm
Forum: Configuring the Retro-Printer Modules
Topic: Brother HL-1210W
Replies: 8
Views: 48515

Re: Brother HL-1210W

Thank you, this gives me hope. I have downloaded the linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.4-1.gz, the hl1210wlpr-3.0.1-1.i386.deb and hl1210wcupswrapper-3.0.1-1.i386.deb.
However, not being very much into Linux, I don't know what to do with these.
by Minetti
Fri May 16, 2025 6:18 pm
Forum: Configuring the Retro-Printer Modules
Topic: Brother HL-1210W
Replies: 8
Views: 48515

Brother HL-1210W

This is a small B&W Laser Printer, wireless. It is detected in the CUPS admin page but there is no dedicated driver. Is there any way of installing this printer as a default Retroprinter?
Thanks
by Minetti
Sat Feb 12, 2022 11:02 am
Forum: Manual Improvements
Topic: manual typo + configuration problem
Replies: 2
Views: 74876

manual typo + configuration problem

On bottom of page 22 of the manual, examples of configuration files, it says "Select the one you need (such as printer_output)". I guess it should be output_printer.
Speaking of this, I have first tried to change config files and could not do it. With Bitvise, from within root/config/, when I type ...