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shuggy999

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Registered: 2022-05-20

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Arch Brother printer driver install

Hello there. I was wondering whether anyone has had any luck for installing the Brother MFC-J1300DW driver to Arch Linux. Brother only supplies rpm and deb files, making it incredibly hard. I saw a page on the Arch wiki, but I didn't really understand it.

If anyone could provide instructions to installing the drivers with CUPS, I would be over the moon!

Thank you,
shuggy999

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: Arch Brother printer driver install

There seems to be an AUR package for your printer, you install that, restart the cups service and then use the cups webui to add a printer. If you want to use it over the network, try the ipp url as mentioned in the wiki.

That printer support AirPrint as well. https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT201311
You could do the "driverless" setup for printing and scanning. Cups comes with the necessary drivers, for scanning there is sane-airscan. If you want to use USB, then you need ipp-usb as well.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE

In addition you need avahi to automatically discover the devices, for the usb case as well. Alternatively you could to find out the IP and port and configure everything manually. For ipp-usb that would be 127.0.0.1 and the port from "/var/ipp-usb/dev/<DEVICE>.state".
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Avahi

Last edited by progandy (2022-05-20 17:19:12)

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shuggy999

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Registered: 2022-05-20

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Re: Arch Brother printer driver install

Hey there,
I see the printer in cups and set it up but it won't print anything.

reidh

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Registered: 2022-03-21

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Re: Arch Brother printer driver install

This is for posterity's sake...

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnmCbEWNV1w

You'll be using the open source CUPS protocol created by Apple

1. Install and enable CUPS printer service

`sudo pacman -S cups`

`sudo systemctl enable --now cups`

2. Add your user to group

`groups`

`sudo usermod -aG lp your-user`

3. Add GUI for printer management

`sudo pacman -S system-config-printer`

Start `system-config-printer` with your application launcher (dmenu, rofi, etc.)

Add printer and you're off and running.

Last edited by reidh (2023-02-21 18:54:27)

Scimmia

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Re: Arch Brother printer driver install

This is for posterity's sake...

So you necroposted (which is against the rules) to spoon feed someone a solution that doesn't answer their question, and all of your info is already covered by the wiki page already linked.

Welcome to the forums, but please pay attention to the rules and what's going on.

Last edited by Scimmia (2023-02-21 18:50:13)

WorMzy

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Re: Arch Brother printer driver install

As noted, please don't necrobump.

Closing.

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