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thommen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2017-12-30

Posts: 239

[RESOLVED] Brother printer network connection

I have a Brother HL-5450DN printer. According to the training → https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Packag … er_drivers I installed the drivers

pacaur -S brother-hl5450dn

What further steps should be taken to complete the installation? Currently, the printer is not detected, when connected to the network (not directly to the computer).

Last edited by thommen (2022-10-11 13:43:20)

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 636

Re: [RESOLVED] Brother printer network connection

https://support.brother.com/g/b/manualt … 5450dn_all

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 870

Re: [RESOLVED] Brother printer network connection

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS#Network

To discover, make use of discovered or share printers using DNS-SD/mDNS, setup .local hostname resolution with Avahi and restart cups.service.
Note: DNS-SD is only supported when using Avahi. CUPS does not support using systemd-resolved for DNS-SD, see CUPS issue 5452.

To share printers with Samba, e.g. if the system is to be a print server for Windows clients, the samba package will be required.

thommen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2017-12-30

Posts: 239

Re: [RESOLVED] Brother printer network connection

In my case, a network printer had to be added manually over HTTP in CUPS (http://localhost:631/)

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,360

Re: [RESOLVED] Brother printer network connection

Many modern printers can be set up with driverless printing using IPP Everywhere - which makes installation independent of having to find driver files, and works really well.  Driverless printing was described in the Arch Wiki so presumably it is still there.

Last edited by mcloaked (2022-10-11 16:32:51)

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