<semi-OT> looking for .ppd

Gary Aitken freebsd at dreamchaser.org
Mon Aug 3 16:19:47 UTC 2020


On 8/2/20 9:31 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 	I have a recent -CURRENT system on which I am installing CUPS.
> The printer is a Brother HL-2270DW ... which is not on the list of
> known printers, and for which I am unable to find a .ppd from a
> trustworthy source.
> 	Anyone know where to locate this?  Or failing that, possibly have
> one they could share?

The brother website refers to a "Generic CUPSwrapper printer driver"
as the one for the HL-2270DW, which is the same as the one for the
HL-2250DN, so there's a good possibility the supplied ppd
   stp-brother-hl-2250dn.5.3.ppd.gz
might work.

Gary


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