Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser

From	"Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.setup.misc
Subject	Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser
Date	2013-04-26 23:17 -0500
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:54:52 UTC, Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> Still no joy after two or three cuts and tries.  I am getting by with 
> printing from my Windows machine work arounds:- pdf file method, opening 
> what I can with a Windows program; using the Windows version of DeScribe 
> in Win 7's Windows XP mode but they are awkward, inelegant, inconvenient!

Paul is correct.  I looked through the printer specs, and examined the 
downloadable drivers from Brother.  This is a GDI printer, a.k.a. a
"WinPrinter".  It will not work under OS/2, and very likely never will.

Your only hope is that it may compatible with one of the existing GDI 
protocols that are supported by foo2xxx or Ghostscript, but I doubt
that's the case or someone on the OpenPrinting site probably would have
discovered it by now.

Fiddling around with the LaserJet driver (any version) will not help you
as that is only for PCL printers.

-- 
Alex Taylor
http://www.altsan.org

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Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> - 2013-04-09 22:14 +1000
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-09 16:50 +0100
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-09 23:57 +0000
    Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Andreas Kohl <ak120@arcor.de> - 2013-04-10 09:03 +0200
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-10 11:32 +0100
        Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> - 2013-04-16 13:27 +0930
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Barbara" <bca.1824@clutter.gmail.net> - 2013-04-10 14:26 +0000
    Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> - 2013-04-26 21:54 +1000
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Barbara" <bca.1824@clutter.gmail.net> - 2013-04-26 15:47 +0000
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-26 16:47 +0000
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2013-04-26 23:17 -0500
        Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> - 2013-04-28 12:02 +1000
          Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2013-04-28 21:33 -0500
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2013-04-10 17:33 +0000
    Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "James J. Weinkam" <jjw@cs.sfu.ca> - 2013-04-10 11:58 -0700
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "David T. Johnson" <djohnson@isomedia.com> - 2013-05-03 19:22 +0000

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