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fib

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Registered: 2012-06-13

Posts: 13

printer - brother mfc-465cn

Hi,

I'm trying to enable a connection between my archlinux os and a printer (brother mfc465cn) via network.
First of all I tried to ping the printer at its own IP address and I correctly receive an answer.

1) I installed the cups service and started it.
2) I followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Brother_MFC-440CN replacing the 440cn driver with 465cn driver.
3) I set up the printer in the cups administration page.

Now the problem is that even if I have the correct PPD, I'm not able to print anything.
I Tried several solutions:
1) I used the the printer discovered by "cups administration page"
----Discovered Network Printers:     Brother MFC-465CN (Brother MFC-465CN)----
And I obtain the connection "lpd://printer-name/BINARY_P1"
2) I used directly the URI lpd://printer-ip-address
3) I used the URI socket://printer-ip-address

Unfortunately, none of them is working.

Do you have any suggestions?

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: printer - brother mfc-465cn

Can you ping the printer IP?

Last edited by AndyRTR (2012-06-13 08:22:52)

fib

Member

Registered: 2012-06-13

Posts: 13

Re: printer - brother mfc-465cn

Yes as I said I receive the ping answer correctly.