Feature changed by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #312405, revision 2 Title: lpr - Line Printer Daemon openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The newly provided printer drivers by Brother do require the line printer daemon to be installed (/etc/init.d/lpd). Without them I can not print in color, fax or scan. + Discussion: + #1: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2011-08-16 09:39:47) + LPR/LPD is outdated nowadays. Please tell Brother to make their printer + driver software so that it works in compliance with nowadays well + established standards like CUPS and SANE. You may point Brother to + http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/writingan... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312405

Feature changed by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #312405, revision 4 Title: LPR/LPD for Brother's printer drivers - openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Infrastructure: Rejected by Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) + reject reason: We cannot reanimate the outdated LPR/LPRng printing + systems because it is in conflict with CUPS. Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The newly provided printer drivers by Brother do require the line printer daemon to be installed (/etc/init.d/lpd). Without them I can not print in color, fax or scan. Discussion: #1: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2011-08-16 09:39:47) LPR/LPD is outdated nowadays. Please tell Brother to make their printer driver software so that it works in compliance with nowadays well established standards like CUPS and SANE. You may point Brother to http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/writingan... + #2: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2011-08-16 12:44:28) + We cannot reanimate the outdated LPR/LPRng printing systems because it + is in conflict with CUPS. Nowadays applications use CUPS so that this + onw must be installed but one cannot have CUPS and LPR/LPRng instralled + at the same time. + Nowadays there is only very limited LPD support via cups-lpd to accept + print jobs that come in via the LPD protocol, see + http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell and + http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_from_Windows_to_Linux -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312405