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#1 2017-07-12 03:52:53

doakey3
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[SOLVED] Brother Printer PJ723 Driver Help

I am trying to get my PocketJet 723 to work with my Arch setup, but the driver for the printer is not available on the AUR. Brother provides a .deb driver on their website but I'm not sure how to install this.

Can anyone offer guidance as to how I can get this driver installed or prepped to go on to the AUR? Thanks!

Last edited by doakey3 (2017-07-26 21:11:44)

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#2 2017-07-18 02:42:59

doakey3
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother Printer PJ723 Driver Help

Shucks. I'm still stumped on this one guys.

I took another look at the .deb that Brother provides. Inside the .deb there are 3 files:

brcupsconftpt1
brother_pj723_printer_en.ppd
cupswrapperpj723

I think I'm supposed to put the first 2 into certain folders on my computer, then run the cupswrapperpj723 in order to create an lpdwrapper called:
brother_lpdwrapper_pj723. Still not sure though.

Any help would be greaty appreciated.

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#3 2017-07-18 03:05:53

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother Printer PJ723 Driver Help

Look at some of the Brother PKGBUILDs in the AUR: they all work roughly the same way.


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#4 2017-07-18 23:35:00

pypi
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother Printer PJ723 Driver Help

There appears to be an RPM version, and there is a wiki article describing how to package rpm brother printer drivers. Another thing to try if you can't get that working might be debtap.

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#5 2017-07-26 21:10:17

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother Printer PJ723 Driver Help

I had the day off from work and had some time to look at this again and--thanks to your links--I was able to figure it out. I will write my installation process here so that anyone else may benefit:

1. Download the .deb drivers (both LPR & the cupswrapper) from The Brother Support Page
2. From the cupswrapper .deb file, look for the file called brother_pj723_printer_en.ppd
    Open the file in a text editor and change the line that starts with '*cupsFilter:' so it look like this:

*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 /opt/brother/PTouch/pj723/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_pj723"

    Place this file into /usr/share/ppd/Brother

3. (The Tricky Part) Extract cupswrapperpj723 from the cupswrapper .deb file and open it in a text editor
    Remove everything except for:
        the initial section where paths/variables are defined
        the section that begins with: cat <<!ENDOFWFILTER! >$tmp_filter
        the line: chmod 755 $tmp_filter
        the exit line: exit 0
    Run the script to generate a cups filter into /var/tmp
    Move the newly created filter: /var/tmp/brother_lpdwrapper_pj723 to /opt/brother/PTouch/pj723/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_pj723
    Extract the brcupsconftpt1 file from the cupswrapper .deb file and also put it in /opt/brother/PTouch/pj723/cupswrapper
4. Extract the 'inf' and 'lpd' folders from the lpr .deb file and place them in /opt/brother/PTouch/pj723
5. Install the printer in CUPS

I tried debtap, but I couldn't get it to work.

EDIT: I also needed to install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brot … rapper-ac/ before this worked.

Last edited by doakey3 (2017-08-23 23:14:37)

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#6 2018-02-21 01:43:26

doakey3
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother Printer PJ723 Driver Help

I have uploaded a repository to the AUR called brother-pj723 which can be installed with yaourt.

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