Brother-MFC-J3930DW printer CUPS error [SOLVED]

Daedalus24 · 2022-02-28 17:03:29

I have purchased a Brother-MFC-J3930DW printer yesterday and configured it as a wifi printer. XSane works after installing the brscan5 package, which offers driver support for this particular printer. I also downloaded the recommended driver from Brother and installed it.

When trying to print a test page within CUPS it does nothing and returns the following message in the Status area:

Processing - "Unable to locate printer "BRWF889D2A4AE15.local"."

After installing the driver, the CUPS page allows me to set all default options, and there are a lot of options available.

If I type

# sudo lpinfo -v

it returns:

file cups-pdf:/
file cups-brf:/
network https
network http
network beh
network socket
network ipp
network lpd
network ipps
network smb
network dnssd://Brother%20MFC-J3930DW._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-b422005f0bdc
network lpd://BRWF889D2A4AE15/BINARY_P1

I am sure I have missed something. I would appreciate any hint or idea on how to solve this issue.

Thank you!

Last edited by Daedalus24 (2022-05-29 09:53:42)

seth · 2022-02-28 18:26:11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0& … &submit=Go
You can maybe lift one of those for https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa … w_eu_as_cn

Daedalus24 · 2022-03-01 08:25:36

Our excellent wiki helped me solve the issue. I have looked over

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Avahi# … resolution

and edited the /etc/nssswitch.conf file so as to include

mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]

before resolve and dns.

@Seth, you suggest I create a new package for this printer and add it to AUR? I will need a little assistance with it. Thank you again!

seth · 2022-03-01 14:42:41

If the generic driver works and this is just a matter of avahi/mdns detecting the printer there'll be no need for the specific brother driver/plugin.

Arch Linux

#1 2022-02-28 17:03:29

Brother-MFC-J3930DW printer CUPS error [SOLVED]

#2 2022-02-28 18:26:11

Re: Brother-MFC-J3930DW printer CUPS error [SOLVED]

#3 2022-03-01 08:25:36

Re: Brother-MFC-J3930DW printer CUPS error [SOLVED]

#4 2022-03-01 14:42:41

Re: Brother-MFC-J3930DW printer CUPS error [SOLVED]

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