In Cups under printers, the first "Make and Model" reads: Brother DCP-L3510CDW series, driverless, cups-filters 1.28.15 The second just reads: Brother DCP-L3510CDW CUPS
I can't answer your question but as I'm in the market for a colour laser printer can I pick your brains?
Would you buy this printer again? Apart from this issue, does it just work with Linux out of the box? What's the toner life like compared to the claimed life?
I have an HL-L8260CDW and CUPS is a bit weird because of the mDNS auto-detection - it will randomly fail to find the printer, change driver or print a page saying something like 'unknown format' (I think it's trying to send URF which the printer only supports over AirPrint, not over IPP). I do have a fairly complicated network setup which might be a reason, though.
I went into CUPS settings and changed the connection to AppSocket using its fixed IP and the driver to 'Brother MFC-8370DN BR-Script3' and it's much better - not randomly change settings.
Speaking for the HL-L8260CDW, definitely. HP, Lexmark, Epson and friends have got big into toner chipping and causing trouble if you don't use genuine cartridges. For mine a full set of colour cartridges (no chips, just a simple mechanical wheel to indicate fullness) is about £30-35. I've printed 18882 pages and probably spent only slightly more than £100 on toner. In fact I think paper is the bigger running cost.
Yes, it'll print fine just with the auto-detection.
No idea, I just buy a box of 4 cartridges for the £30 and replace them as and when needed. I think I've gone through 3 full sets of carts, although I complained to one seller about the magenta being leaky, got a refund and then rebought just a separate magenta cart. This site is my go-to for info on the reset wheel mechanism on the official cartridges:
formatting link
there is also a hidden reset menu which works for me:
formatting link
I do this when the printer moans about empty toner, and run the cartridges until there is actually no toner left (often a few weeks past the 'replace toner' message)
It's saying I'm on 38% drum life, which I think is rated at 30k pages. I think the secret reset menu can do that too, but if not a drum kit is about £100.
I think newer Brothers now have toner chips, but you can still use unofficial toner.
CUPS = Common Unix Printing System, the printing subsystem used by Linux and MacOS. Roughly equivalent to the Windows printer driver system.
Android and iOS use a much simpler way to talk to printers: no drivers to install, printers auto-detect via mDNS and all speak some common languages (URF for AirPrint, PWG over Mopria for Android)
I am not sure CUPS was. It got heavily taken up by apple, yes. wiki --
"Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997 and the first public betas appeared in 1999. The original design of CUPS used the Line Printer Daemon protocol (LPD), but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was initially called "The Common UNIX Printing System". This name was shortened to just "CUPS" beginning with CUPS 1.4 due to legal concerns with the UNIX trademark. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing system for most Linux distributions. In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2. In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code. On December
20, 2019, Michael Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple. In
2020, the OpenPrinting organization forked the project, with Michael Sweet continuing work on it. "
Avahi is an implementation of Apple's 'Zeroconf'.
In practice I found that going into my HP printers (web based ) configuration, setting it to a fixed IP address and turning off *almost everything* except IPP/IPPS and 9100 allowed me to set up CUPS simply and reliably.
I kept switching OFF stuff until it DID work simply, and reliably.
Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so
The official public repository for CUPS, an Apple open-source project widely used for printing on Linux, is all-but dormant since the lead developer left Apple at the end of 2019.
Apple adopted CUPS for Mac OS X in 2002, and hired its author Michael Sweet in 2007, with Cupertino also acquiring the CUPS source code. Sweet continued to work on printing technology at Apple, including CUPS, until December 2019 when he left to start a new company.
Asked at the time about the future of CUPS, he said: “CUPS is still owned and maintained by Apple. There are two other engineers still in the printing team that are responsible for CUPS development, and it will continue to have new bug fix releases (at least) for the foreseeable future.”
Despite this statement, Linux watcher Michael Larabel noted earlier this week that “the open-source CUPS code-base is now at a stand-still. There was just one commit to the CUPS Git repository for all of 2020.” This contrasts with 355 commits in 2019, when Sweet still worked at Apple, and 348 the previous year. </cite>
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