[split] Ubuntu, Brother printer and poor text rendering

[inthemidst]

Hi,
I realize this is an old thread, but ....

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 and have a different Brother printer, but the same issue of poor text rendering when graphics are involved. I've spent too many hours trying to troubleshoot this on my own and have stumbled on this dated post. Could someone be so kind as to explain

At a conceptual level, what exactly these instructions achieve and which steps do what? I want to see if I can apply them to my HL-4570CDW which isn't part of the standard foomatic/cups packages.

For example, why you need to use init.d/cupsd not just init.d/cups?

What does the cupswrapper -i install actually install?

ANy help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Midst

ps. I noticed the sed command doesn't actually replace all cases of cups to cupsd.

Mike

[Joseph_sys]

The instruction I posted was long time ago but it has nothing to do with improving print quality.
You can install/download driver from brother web-page:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl4570cdw_all

[pjp]

Since this is not about Gentoo (or the thread it was posted to), it fits better in the Unsupported Software forum.

The above two posts were split from Brother HL-5370DW installation howto in Documentation, Tips & Tricks.

I edited inthemidst's original post to add a thread title and also a link to the original thread via the word "this."
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[inthemidst]

Could someone please provide an overview of what exactly is going on here?

E.g.
1) how does this altered pipeline differ from the one you'd get from just installing the brother packages?

2) What does setting up a /etc/cupsd file do and why is it necessary?

3) What did the section [HL5370DW] in the brHL5370DWrc file originally say?


I have a brother printer (HL-4570CDW) that suffers from the poor resolution when printing text and images as described in the OP. However, I am running Mate Ubuntu 18.04 and so need to adapt this for my system. I've asked for help on a couple of ubuntu forums, but haven't had any success.

Thanks,

Mike

[pjp]

Merged the previous post from the same thread and locked the old thread. Will also send a PM to inthemidst.
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[NeddySeagoon]

inthemidst,

It looks like the HL-4570CDW can be connected via USB, WiFi or Ethernet.

If you want to connect it via USB, you need the Brother drivers.
It all gets much easier if you use Ethernet and CUPS. You need the PPD file
The PPD file describes the printer to CUPs.

With CUPS installed put the PPD file into /etc/cups/ppd/ then use the CUPS admin page to add a printer.
When it gets to choosing a Make of printer, don't do that. Further down the page, it says Or Provide a PPD File: browse to the PPD file you put into /etc/cups/ppd/

WiFi might count as Ethernet, it might not too.
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those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[inthemidst]

[pjp]

inthemidst,

Given the age of the original document, keep in mind that it may no longer be accurate.

That said, I read Joseph_sys's comments simply to mean to avoid using a specific option: