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haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-25

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Brother DCP-150C HowTo

Hi!
After having tried around for some time i finally managed to make my Brother DCP-150C work. (At least the printing-part, i am still working on the scanner-part).
The situation is as follows: The printer is neither supported by CUPS nor SANE - so we have to use the binary Brother-driver.

So let's start. The drivers are only available as .deb or .rpm, i chose to use the .deb but i don't think it matters.

Visit this site http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/ … ivers.html and download the driver from here: http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreemen … nglish_lpr.

Then you need the CUPS-Wrapper: http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreemen … nglish_gpl

since we don't have a debian-System we need to manually install the driver with copy/paste. So install deb2targz:

pacman -S deb2targz

move to the directory you downloaded the .deb-files to and convert them to .tar.gz (deb2targz *.deb) then extract them and copy them into the right dircetories.

Then CUPS detects the printer.

It would be great if somebody could write a PKGBUILD so that the driver is easily uninstallable

Good Luck

haukew

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 96

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Re: Brother DCP-150C HowTo

I just found out: It may be required to start this program once (after extracting):

/usr/local/Brother/Printer/dcp150c/cupswrapper/cupswrapperdcp150c