Include printer driver for Brother QL-570 labelprinter

[Pander]

Please include printer driver for Brother QL-750 labelprinter. Drivers (already in .deb) can be found here:
  http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_esp.html#QL-570
Please offer separate packages for mm and inch as they do.

Also include other drivers from this URL.

This could relate to package ptouch-driver or to brother-cups/lpr-wrapper-extra.

[Pander (pander)]

More info is here:
http://www.blog.meansofseeing.com/2010/10/03/brother-ql-570-play-nice-ubuntu-10-04/
http://etc.nkadesign.com/Printers/QL550LabelPrinterCUPS
http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/panic/P-touch/

[Pander (pander)]

The best would be to do both. Include the Brother drivers in brother-cups/lpr-wrapper-extra and extend the open source driver in ptouch-driver.

Brother also offers OpenOffice templates and example documents (test pages) which are very hany. Could these be packaged too?

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Brother is working on making automatically downloadable driver packages available through OpenPrinting. Ubuntu Natty and later will have the appropriate auto-download facility and as soon as the new driver packages are ready, connecting a Brother printer will trigger the automatic download directly from Brother. This way the proprietary drivers do not need to be shipped with Ubuntu Linux.

[Pander (pander)]

Till, could such a system be also setup for Epson scanners, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/208405 ?

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Pander, I answered in bug #208405.

[Pander (pander)]

Epson and AVASYS to Launch First Automatic Printer Driver Download Service for Linux OS
http://global.epson.com/newsroom/2011/news_20110331.html

[Pander (pander)]

Any update on this from the side of Ubuntu?

[Pander (pander)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ptouch-driver/+bug/1604036 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ptouch-driver/+bug/1607917