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quixaq

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[SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

My printer isn't on OpenPrinting, so i can't check does it work under linux and what driver to use. I tried driverless but doesnt work. There is also nothing about that model in CUPS Printer specific problems on Arch Wiki. I also couldn't find any driver for the printer on AUR.

Last edited by quixaq (2024-09-29 12:49:22)

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

Hello and welcome in the forum.

Do you mean MFC-J625DW or MFC-J6520DW? I cannot find anything about MFC-J6250 online except for some italian and brasilian sites offering ink cartrigdes and listing it as compatible.

Last edited by progandy (2024-09-28 13:11:41)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-mfc-j6520dw ?
And since it depends on ghostscript, there's also a silent dependency on https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/which/

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

too slow

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2024-09-28 13:32:14)

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quixaq

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Registered: 2024-09-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

Do you mean MFC-J625DW or MFC-J6520DW? I cannot find anything about MFC-J6250 online except for some italian and brasilian sites offering ink cartrigdes and listing it as compatible.

sorry, that was a typo, i mean MFC-J6520DW

Last edited by quixaq (2024-09-28 19:14:22)

quixaq

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-mfc-j6520dw ?

after installing the driver and setting it up, when i try to print test page it says "Unable to locate printer (...).local."

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

Setting ip up, how?
That's an mdns tld, do you run avahi?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS#Network

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Describe what you actually did, nmap the domain you're trying to use and in doubt enable cups debugging and post a log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Troubleshooting

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quixaq

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Re: [SOLVED] Printer Brother MFC-J6520 not working

Setting ip up, how?
That's an mdns tld, do you run avahi?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS#Network

i got it to work, turns out that i had systemd-resolved disabled for some reason, after enabling it back it started working