Edit: added footnote
1. The chief maintainer - not the only maintainer, between 2007-2019
extension link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Read%20on%20reMarka...
Very much IS there in the background.
See http://localhost:631/printers on your OS X machine.
> Web Interface is Disabled
> The web interface is currently disabled. Run “cupsctl WebInterface=yes” to enable it.
But I cannot remember if I disabled that.
On macOS I think it either recognized my printer or I had to select it from a list. I don't remember which for sure. It was a few years ago.
On Linux my Brother printer is not on the list. Brother offers a deb and rpm packages which may be obsolete for all I know. Then you have to install it manually. But in my case it never offered double sided printing.
For years I am using a crutch in terms of Android driver and Brother's own app. This despite being offered by the producer doesn't offer double sided printing either. It doesn't even give ability to print in grayscale.
I don't know what lifting "real" is doing here, but lpd(8)[0] (line printer daemon) is what we used to use, and printcap(5)[1] to configure. It was general enough that you could make a music playlist system out of it[2].
[0] https://man.netbsd.org/lpd.8
[1] https://man.netbsd.org/printcap.5
[2] https://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandm...
If you install the specific driver it generally should have parity with their Windows / macOS driver though.
But you should in theory also be able to do this without any Brother-specific driver since pretty much all modern printers speak IPP for mobile device compatibility.
They claim that modern printers implement IPP and that should be the preferred protocol for printing. In IPP, printers advertise capabilities and are able to handle different high-level printing requests.
https://support.brother.com/g/b/midlink_productcategory.aspx...
