Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Provision of a Brother HL-1030 printer driver

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Mar 4, 2019, at 8:21 AM, Al Zanabili <al...@za...> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir or madam, 
> 
> I'm using a Macbook Air with macOS Mojave and would like to use/install a Brother HL-1030 Printer. As it is not listenend among the supported printers on http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php <http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php> I tried Brother HL-1040 - CUPS+Gutenprintv5.2.14. However, it doesn't print at all.
> 
> I wonder whether you could provide a Brother HL-1030 printer driver, thus helping me spare the expenses for a new printer and the natural environment the accruement of avoidable waste. 
> 
> Thank you very much for the time and effort you take for me.
> 
> Yours faithfully,
> Alexander Zanabili
> 
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The owner's manual for this printer shows that it uses the Brother printing solution for Windows as the printer language.  That means that it uses a proprietary printer language that Gutenprint does not support.  A volunteer would need to step forward to write a driver for this.

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Matt Broughton
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