Brother DCP-7055 on Leap 16 with open CUPS driver

For the last several years, I’ve used the proprietary Brother drivers for my old Brother DCP-7055 (USB-connected) mono laser printer. They are legacy 32-bit driver packages.

With a recent install of Leap 16, I decided to use the open printer-driver-brlaserpackage (designed for x86 architectures) from the openSUSE printing repository instead. This package provides a CUPS driver that supports a range of Brother monochrome laser printers using the rastertolaser filter.

zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/16.0/Printing.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install printer-driver-brlaser

Then configured via the CUPS web interface http://localhost:631/admin

Printing works perfectly.

For scanning, I used the vendor-supplied brscan4 (x86_64) package as before.

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