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#1 2022-01-13 21:58:03

ordinary.schreiber
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[SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

Hello, I am trying to add a Brother DCP-J572DW printer with the CUPS web interface.
I tried a couple of protocols with the respective urls and I did my best to choose the most approiate ones. Although, every time I would add the printer it won't print any job.

e.g. I tried Internet Printing Protocol which had the same outcome of the others

ipp://ip-address/ipp/print

The only drivers reporting the correct model name of my printer are the following:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-dcpj572dw/

Even though the description says those drivers are actually for another printer.

I wasn't able to find the appropriate drivers or the correct url protocol to use. Can anybody help?

Last edited by ordinary.schreiber (2022-01-14 12:21:00)

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#2 2022-01-13 22:06:35

progandy
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

That driver is correct, only the description is wrong.

The printer should also support AirPrint, so it could be installed as a driverless printer in linux as well.

Last edited by progandy (2022-01-13 22:07:05)


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#3 2022-01-13 22:20:19

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

How would I install it with AirPrint?
I just looked it up but couldn't understand exactly what should I do in my case.

Also, I can't figure out why CUPS won't add the printer. I was used to open CUPS and automatically install a network printer selecting it between the ones listed in CUPS.
Although, this time no printer was listed. And I wasn't able to install it manually as well.
Is ther a reason for that?

Am i missing something?

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#4 2022-01-14 10:58:15

ordinary.schreiber
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

I checked also the Brother support page and came out with a solution.

Although, I'm not sure this is the right way to go.

Can anybody tell me whether I should proceed this way or not?

Last edited by ordinary.schreiber (2022-01-14 11:07:54)

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#5 2022-01-14 11:55:08

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

I tried doing it that way but it didn't work.

The printer is stil not responding.

I also tried configuring it automatically with the KDE Printers tool.
It identified the printer as a Network Printer but it couldn't proceed with the installation due to an error message prompting:

«The name org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing was not provided by any .service files»

Can this be the issue? How do I solve it?

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#6 2022-01-14 11:57:33

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

The example is in the arch wiki for CUPS:

# lpadmin -p AirPrint -E -v "ipp://10.0.1.25/ipp/print" -m everywhere    # Driverless queue (Apple AirPrint or IPP Everywhere)

where -p AirPrint can be any name you choose, and the ip address is changed for your specific printer.


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#7 2022-01-14 12:20:45

ordinary.schreiber
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

Thank you very much!

It worked.

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#8 2022-01-27 17:36:11

ordinary.schreiber
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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

I'm posting here another information in case somebody find it useful.

mcloaked wrote:

# lpadmin -p AirPrint -E -v "ipp://10.0.1.25/ipp/print" -m everywhere    # Driverless queue (Apple AirPrint or IPP Everywhere)

On another Arch system where I installed Xfce, this command wasn't enough.

The system was missing even the CUPS package so I installed that first.
But it was also missing another package, so in order to be able to print I had to:

sudo pacman -S ghostscipt

Without this other package the printer just won't complete any job, despite appearing to be configured correctly.

Last edited by ordinary.schreiber (2022-01-27 17:36:56)

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#9 2022-01-28 11:48:14

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

cups depends on cups-filters which has an optional dependency on ghostscript .

ghostscript (optional) - for non-PostScript printers to print with CUPS to convert PostScript to raster 

Maybe that text should be changed to something like "necessary for all non-PostScript printers" for clarity .

edit: typo

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2022-01-28 12:45:55)


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#10 2022-01-28 11:50:22

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Re: [SOLVED] Brother DCP-J572DW printer CUPS configuration

It is good to see this solved - and I imagine that having the additional information in the wiki would be useful too.


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