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Re: Does your printer work with Guix System? Please share!
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Does your printer work with Guix System? Please share! |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:05:58 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Hi Chris,
> I want to buy a printer to use with a Guix System machine. At a bare
> minimum, it just needs to print in black and white reliably, but I hope
> I can find one that does more than just the bare minimum.
>
> Has anyone here successfully printed (and/or scanned) using Guix
> System?
Yes!
I haven’t tried it recently but I had used my laser printer Brother
HL-L2370DN successfully.
I’m using this package definition:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-public brlaser
(let ((commit "7ed0d6f2e8d5a8192c5621898b3ff920c95b66dc")
(revision "1"))
(package
(name "brlaser")
(version (git-version "0" revision commit))
(source (origin
(method git-fetch)
(uri (git-reference
(url "https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser.git")
(commit commit)))
(sha256
(base32
"04spxjk42wah1j38w6iv4c2pasmpbh2gypv3xlmk7vh3yzfffpxf"))))
(build-system cmake-build-system)
(arguments
`(#:configure-flags
(list (string-append "-DCUPS_DATA_DIR="
(assoc-ref %outputs "out")
"/share/cups")
(string-append "-DCUPS_SERVER_BIN="
(assoc-ref %outputs "out")
"/lib/cups"))))
(inputs
`(("ghostscript" ,ghostscript)
("cups" ,cups)
("zlib" ,zlib)))
(home-page "TODO")
(synopsis "TODO")
(description "TODO")
(license license:gpl2+))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I use this with the following CUPS service declaration:
(service cups-service-type
(cups-configuration
(web-interface? #t)
(extensions
(list cups-filters brlaser))))
It’s just a monochrome printer (no scanner) and I verified that this one
feature works properly. It prints the test pages and prints PDFs
(generated with LuaLaTeX from gbrief2 documents) just fin.
The toner cartriges can be refilled by a third party service for a few
times before they need to be replaced, but I haven’t printed enough to
have a need to refill.
I haven’t used it in a while, but I wanted to give it a try again soon.
(I bought it to print PCB masks onto transparencies to use them as photo
resist masks for etching PCBs, but I haven’t found enough time to
actually etch a little.)
The printer is pretty small for a laser printer and has no fancy
features (has an ethernet port, but no WiFi, no fancy display), which I
appreciate.
--
Ricardo