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lvyj

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Registered: 2015-06-10

Posts: 3

CUPS is "unable to locate printer"

I'm struggling to get my laptop to locate my office printer. It's a Brother MFC-8890DW and I've installed the relevant PPD, which has no cupsFilter lines in it.

I'm able to set up the printer through the CUPS interface, but when I try to test print I'm hit with an "unable to locate printer" message. I've scoured these and other forums and cannot find a solution.

Also, I can't identify the printer's IP address, fwiw.

Last edited by lvyj (2015-06-10 13:57:33)

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: CUPS is "unable to locate printer"

Since CUPS 2.0, I can only get my Brother printer working via its IP address, e.g. "socket://192.168.2.100:9100". Under CUPS 1.x it all worked flawlessly via ZeroConf or whatever automatic IP address negotiation is called.

So either downgrade CUPS or find out the IP address from the router or an OS X/Windows machine.

Last edited by Morn (2015-06-10 15:45:35)

wildfowl

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Registered: 2014-10-16

Posts: 82

Re: CUPS is "unable to locate printer"

I'm struggling to get my laptop to locate my office printer. It's a Brother MFC-8890DW and I've installed the relevant PPD, which has no cupsFilter lines in it.

I'm able to set up the printer through the CUPS interface, but when I try to test print I'm hit with an "unable to locate printer" message. I've scoured these and other forums and cannot find a solution.

Also, I can't identify the printer's IP address, fwiw.

Once you connect to the printer, you still need to establish a dynamic host comm protocol. Just as you would as if say connecting to the web.