Gregory Nowak <greg@???> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:27:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I'm using the driver from Brother, and lpr from lprng. I found the
>> lprng-doc package. I suppose the next thing is to read it,
>
> While I haven't used a brother printer, I do seem to have a
> recollection of doing lpr file.pdf, and having the pdf print out
> normally. If ghostscript supports your printer, lprng can be setup to
> pipe through ghostscript.

The Brother driver is really an input filter, usually at shell script,
which is supposed to take care of this autoamtically. Judging from a
quick look, mine roughly converts the input to PostScript via a2ps and
that to PCL by feeding it into a Brother-provided program.