Facts:
Mono laser printer.
No printer emulation.
No PCL (Printer Control Language).
Uses GDI (Graphical Device Interface).

When adding the PPD (Brother-HL-2135-hl1250.ppd) I'm asked for the foomatic-rip CUPS filter.

Is foomatic-rip supported in MorphOS?

> Is foomatic-rip supported in MorphOS?

In 2015 it wasn't (see comments #134 and #141 in that thread). I'm not aware of any change in this regard.

GDI-Printers are not supported.

Thanks. I might try the Samsung ML-1710 (PPD included with MorphOS) instead.

So, ... I've made a port of brlaser cups driver although i forgot to add it to MorphOS 3.14
so anyone can check this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ynbdf352nmEl1U_RhPRhAcC2gtr9LDby/view?usp=sharing

rastertobrlaser goes to MorphOS:MorphOS/Data/Printers
PPDs of supported printers included


I don't know if it works with Brother HL-2132 / HL-2135 as don't have any Brother printers but you can try. Other option is to use Ghostscript direclty to check if GS included drivers (hl1250 and hl7x0 output devices) handles this printer.

To call gs:
MorphOS:MorphOS/Data/Printers/gs -sDEVICE=hl1250 -sOutputFile=NETPAR: or USBPAR: filename.ps

PS can be made in VPDF -> Print-> Postscript/ Profilep (ToFile) and output path to ram:filename.ps

If it works, i can make some wrapper/ppd to call ghoscript from PRINTER: system.

How do I setup NETPAR: or USBPAR:? This is USB only, no network.

Devices:
TRASH AUDIO CON DEBUG IXPIPE
MUICON NULL PAR PIPE PRINTER
PRT PS RANDOM RAWDISK SER
USBRAW ZERO RAM SYSRAW SYSCON
RAW DH1 DH0


With Printer (the old system) I could at least get blank papers from the printer via usbparallel.device

From MZone wiki:
"For network printing please use NETPAR: and for usb printers please use USBPAR:. Usb printing needs USBPAR mountlist copied from Storage/DosDrivers to the DEVS:DosDrivers or add mount USBPAR: somewhere in the S:user-startup file."

for quicktest just type mount USBPAR: in the shell

Thanks, I've mounted it.

Ram Disk:> mossys:Data/Printers/gs -sDEVICE=hl1250 -sOutputfile=usbpar: ram:filename.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.70 (2009-07-31)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.

>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
GS<1>
GS<1>showpage
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

GS<1>


No success.

Quote:

Was RAM:Filename.ps a properly written PostScript file? I think you need to generate a PostScript file from a PDF. Did you follow that part?

I think PostScript is an ASCII-based printer formatting language. If you type "ed ram:Filename.ps" it should display the printer codes as plain text PostScript.

[ Edited by Samurai_Crow 01.01.2021 - 16:30 ]

Quote:

It starts like this:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%Produced by poppler pdftops version: 20.12.1 (http://poppler.freedesktop.org)
%%Title: vpdf ps document output
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
%%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842
%%Pages: 26

Hello!

Perhaps this helps:
I am using a Brother HL-2150N printer here with the common HP-Laserjet2 driver of Turboprint.
The device runs under usbparallel.device.
The max resolution is 300dpi, but it is okay for b/w-prints...

GDI-Printers won't work with MOS! Normaly all calculation to create a printable page are done by printer-firmware. GDI-printer don't do that (because they are low-cost-derivates for Windows) - this work has to be done by (Windows) printerdriver and I don't know any printerdriver on MOS which is capable to do that.
So, if your printer only understands GDI and nothing else, you can forget it.

This is correct. GDI Printers won´t work. Postscript Printers are preferred.
See here : https://www.morphos-storage.net/?id=1588365

:)