Brother MFC 9180 Mac PPD raster engine replacement?
 

I've recently obtained a Brother MFC 9180 printer/fax/copier for free, but have had no success using it in Debian. The CUPS drivers for models similar to it do not work ( either they don't make the printer print or make it print postscript source without carriage returns ).

On the Brother site I found "Macintosh PPD drivers" for the printer. Hooray!

It turns out they were in compressed DMG form :( . A quick dmg2img and loopmount fixed that.

It took a bit of extraneous nested folder trawling to find the file in there that contained the needed drivers: BrotherMLDrivers.mpkg/Contents/Packages/Brother_MonochromeLaser.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz

I wondered what the .pax was. After ungzipping it, I found out it means the archive is stitched together ( eg like tar ) with cpio. After extracting that, I had to perform another wild goose chase to find the right PPD file: Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/Brother MFC-9180 CUPS.gz

Finally! The home-stretch! Or so I thought. The PPD requires a raster engine which is also in the CPIO archive, rastertobrother730. I extracted it out and changed the location for it in the PPD to suit. Now I have another error from CUPS:

Idle - /usr/local/printer/brother-MFC-9180/filters/rastertobrother730 failed

First of all, this rasteriser is not cleartext, but a compiled program. I believe I'm on the wrong architecture for the binary:

Is there anything I can substitute in for the official raster binary? Help would be appreciated.

Attached is the PPD. It is too long to put inside CODE tags.

Hahaha!

No need! I told the printer to print out its configuration, and currently it is emulating a HP LaserJet 5P. Using that driver, it works a treat!