On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:39:37PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 06:17:47PM -0500, Tom Bishop wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:19:30 -0400 > > > Fred Smith wrote: > > > > > >> I've used Brothers printer driver installer tool to install drivers > > >> on C7 for a DCP7650DN. Cups thinks printing is working fine, but > > >> nothing ever arrives at the printer: the printer remains asleep. > > >> > > >> Looking at some of the setup instructions for the brother driver, it > > >> looks as if it wants a symbolic link of /etc/init.d/cups to /etc/init.d/lpd. > > >> neither of those exists in a systemd system, so I'm at somewhat of a loss > > >> regarding what to do. > > > > > > I've had nothing but problems with printing from Centos 7 (see my previous thread about this matter) and eventually gave up and use one of my Centos 6 computers as a print server instead of this one. > > > > > > Having said that, can you dig a ppd file out of that Linux installer you downloaded from the brother website? Perhaps that's all you need to install. > > > > > > -- > > > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > I'm a big fan of brother printers since they support linux, so I have > > me too! > > > a centos 7 install but had not done anything with printing, here is > > what I did. > > > > yum install cups system-config-printer > > go to the brother support page and download both the lpr rpm and the > > cupswrapper rpm > > install both rpm packages > > > > Then drop to a command line a do a system-config-printer, depending on > > how new or old the model is it may auto discover, mine did. If not > > hit the + sign and add a printer, click on network and then enter the > > ip address of the printer and it should discover it, compete the > > information by selecting the correct brother drive etc and then hit > > print test page. > > > > Hopefully I didn;t leave anything out but that is what I did and I am > > up and printing, hope it helps :) > > I'll give it a whirl. > > I followed their (Brother's) manual install instructions to install > a driver for that same device on C6, and it worked fine. I've used > their installer program on F20 (two systems) and it worked fine. I > also used it on C6 at work and it worked fine. So, given that track > record I figured it would probably work on C7. :( > > So I'll go try your method and will respond once I have results. > > thanks! > > Fred following-up on my own posting, can you tell me what choices you made in System-Config-Printer? IPP? LPD? something else? thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) -----------------------------