[needs-packaging] Brother QL-500 CUPS printer drivers

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: cupsys

Driver download page:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/es/os/linux/linux_ql500550.html

I am adding step-by-step instructions sanitized from http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_esp1.html

License: GPL2

also see: Drivers for QL-500 found, but not downloadable - https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/318536

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Step-by-step instructions to add CUPS driver for QL500 Brother printer. Tested on Ubuntu 9.04.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Rubeosis (faspie)]

I would be willing to support debugging of a package. I found the Brother drivers linked above and tried to install them but I cannot see any success and I don't know where to start with reporting bugs... ;-(

I also tried to download ptouch drivers at http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/panic/P-touch/

I compiled them (as root) with
- ./configure
- make
- make install
- copied manually the ptouch.xml into /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver
- the I ran foomatic-ppdfile -p Brother-QL-500 > ql-500.ppd and got a ppd-file

After Installing manually the ppd file in the cups interface I cannot print anything. As attachment you will find the error_log (partially) of cups.

Is anyone out there with a running QL-500????!!!

[Rubeosis (faspie)]

I think this branch can safely be closed

Thanks to Till Kamppeter a ptouch repository has been released for Lucid.

http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/ptouch-driver/ptouch-driver_1.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

This deb also works with Karmic :-)

Till, thank you very much for your work!!!!!

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Moving bug to ptouch-driver, so that it has a reference to the new package.