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necbot

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Registered: 2013-12-05

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[Solved] How do I install Brother HL-L2340DW printer

As the subject says...

How do I install this printer?  I went to localhost:631 and was able to add the printer but I cannot print from it.  I selected driver HL-2460 because there was no driver for HL-L2340DW.  I noticed an rpm and deb package on the linux driver section of the support page for this printer.  Do I need to extract the driver from that somehow?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Last edited by necbot (2014-11-21 17:53:45)

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: [Solved] How do I install Brother HL-L2340DW printer

There's way to handle rpm by rmpunpack in AUR or see similar packages

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

necbot

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Registered: 2013-12-05

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Re: [Solved] How do I install Brother HL-L2340DW printer

Thanks TheSaint.  After I posted this I did some searching and found this...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Brother_HL-2270DW

The Brother HL-2270DW is the predecessor to the HL-L2340DW so I figured that I'd give those drivers a try.  I can verify that the instructions work for the HL-L2340DW.  The margins were out of alignment but the instructions for fixing that are in the troubleshooting section.  Now my printer works perfectly.  The HL-L2340DW seems to be Arch Linux friendly .

Last edited by necbot (2014-11-20 01:13:02)

TheSaint

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Re: [Solved] How do I install Brother HL-L2340DW printer

wish you long lasting ink
BTW, please put [Solved] to this topic.

Last edited by TheSaint (2014-11-20 08:30:48)

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

h54

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Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 96

Re: [Solved] How do I install Brother HL-L2340DW printer

Thank you, this post helped.  Since I already had cups set up, installing HL-2270DW drivers from the AUR and adding the printer from the CUPS web interface.

luken

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] How do I install Brother HL-L2340DW printer

I created an AUR package with driver for this printer - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-hll2340dw/ . PKGBUILD is modified version of this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-brgenml1/ , but downloading a different driver.