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I've been trying for about 5 hours to get my Brother HL-2220 to work on Arch. It will not print. Also localhost:631/admin gives me much grief.
The complete list of things I've tried would take another couple hours to type up.
Brother does not provide a PPD (only RPM and DEB which do not contain any PPD), so I extracted their DEB and was able to run ~/Downloads/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2220/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2220-2.0.4 and ~/Downloads/usr/local/Brother/Printer/HL2220/cupswrapper/brcupsconfig4 and though neither gave output, when I ran system-config-printer, I could see my HL2220 there, and I've got it set as default
The most recent problems:
1. localhost: 631 always wants authentication to do anything meaningful, and neither my regular linux user (who yes is in the lp group) nor the root user work
2. I've tried various ways of changing AuthType in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and if I set enough of those to "None", I can at least get to the various pages (managing jobs, printers, etc.), but nothing prints
I've got a Windoze that I resort to for audio software and whatnot and naturally the HL-2220 is immediately detected and working fine there.
Any ideas?
Last edited by chrisco23 (2017-12-13 18:50:08)
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Brother printers can work under Arch but they are a pain in the ... to config. Use aur to download a relevant driver+ppd.
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@vasilito, thanks, had tried aur but no HL-2220. However, good news: learned the solution, working!
https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answer … _Z~zj~PP9Q
I had run this linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 before, based on some forum thread, but the thread hadn't explained properly how to specify the printer etc.
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