So I'm up and running with the CUPS framework deployed here (the latest netlabs-EXP release - 2.2.13-1.oc00).
My Brother HL-5470DW printer already has native OS/2 PSCRIPT driver support, although there are a couple of problems with it that may be caused by either a bug in OS/2 printing system, or could be the result of my PPD file import itself.
Therefore, I figured I would try to deploy CUPS to see if I can address the issues I'm seeing through that approach.
However, what I have learned so far is that the Brother release of their CUPS drivers requires one to deploy a printer filter script. Not a terribly complex script by the looks of it, but I have no idea how the heck to do this filter deployment on our OS/2 platform. Most of the generic on-line info I've found doesn't even corelate to our filesystems structure either.
Further on, if I understood the published on-line information re: deploying CUPS on our platform, it would appear that once a printer is finalized within the CUPS framework I still need to replicate the very same printer object on our OS/2. That of course in my case requires the import of the PPD, which I think will cause the same problems I'm already seeing with the native drivers.
Anyways, that last part is just a guess so far, not sure about this. The first step is to figure out how to deploy the filter script...any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks!
