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PeaNugE

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Registered: 2022-10-14

Posts: 9

Brother Printer Driver HL2240 and Cups

Working on Getting my Brother HL-2240 setup.

I downloaded the cups wrapper and LPR drivers from AUR using yay. The are listed as installed when I search for them in the AUR. Also, from what I can tell the AUR has the most recent drivers as they match the brother website.

Cups is setup and printer is configured.

When in Cups I click the drop down to select my printer specific driver but there is no Brother folder / files. When I searched the system for a ppd file I could not find one.

I have set this up a few times on different distro's. Mostly Debian based. This is my first time using Arch.

I can get the printer to test print a page but nothing prints which is similar to my past experiences without the ppd file.

I have read over the Arch page which talks about using the rpm files but I was not sure if that was still a thing if the drivers were already on AUR.

I appreciate any help with this. Arch is making my head hurt.

Last edited by PeaNugE (2022-10-20 14:25:58)

Mortimer Houghton

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Registered: 2014-09-28

Posts: 89

Re: Brother Printer Driver HL2240 and Cups

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv … rg+hl+2240

There are a number of posts on the subject.  The one that tripped me up in the past was forgetting ghostscript, but have a look at the threads and see if there isn't something else you have missed.