Add PPDs for Brother MFC-7840N and MFC-7840W

[Jason Gerard DeRose]

Binary package hint: foomatic-db

Brother has written GPLv2 licensed PPD drivers for the MFC-7840N and MFC-7840W multifunction/all-in-one printers. They can be downloaded here:

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html

The MFC-7840W is a fairly popular printer (judging from sales rank on Amazon), so it would be nice to support out-of-the-box. Not sure how many MFC-7840N sold before being superseded by the MFC-7840W, but there's no reason to turn down a GPL driver supplied by the manufacturer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: openprinting-ppds 20100216-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: E [11/Apr/2010:00:55:04 -0600] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv"!
Date: Sun Apr 11 01:22:34 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added.
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
PackageArchitecture: all
Papersize: letter
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=/dev/mapper/main-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: foomatic-db
dmi.bios.date: 02/24/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0913
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P6T WS PRO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0913:bd02/24/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP6TWSPRO:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose)]

For anyone who can test with their MFC-7840N or MFC-7840W printer, a build with my proposed change is in ppa:jderose/ppa

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Till, could you review this change?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package foomatic-db - 20100906-0ubuntu1

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foomatic-db (20100906-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
     - Added Brother MFC-7840N/W printers (LP: #560518).
     - Added PCL driver support for all Sharp printers which were listed as
       only working via PostScript. For these printers PostScript is also
       an optional add-on and therefore one should be able to also set them
       up in PCL mode. The PCL mode will also be the recommended driver
       to assure that automatic setup of the printer works also if it has
       no PostScript module (LP: #378475).
  * debian/patches/hl-2170w-pcl5e.patch: Removed patch with upstream fixes.
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:15:03 +0200