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delmania

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From: Rochester, NY

Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 11

Brother MFC-295 CN printer

Greetings all, I am a fairly new person to Arch Linux, and I've been having some troubles with my printer, which, as the title indicates is a Brother MFC-295CN.  I followed the instructions from the wiki to install CUPS, and then the instructions for installing the Brother MFC-440CN, using the drivers from Brother's website for my printer.    CUPS is working, and when I perform the Add Printer operation, it is able to locate the printer.  However, when I try to print a test page, I receive an error that the printer "lpd://blahlbah/blah"  cannot be found.  Looking for some help, thanks!

lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 1,087

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Re: Brother MFC-295 CN printer

I have a Brother MFC-465CN and had the same problem as you. For some strange reason that lpd://address that CUPS find does not work. Instead, go back into the CUPS printer setup (Modify Printer) and choose the device "Appsocket/HP JetDirect" then click continue and set the Device URI to: "socket://192.168.0.10:9100" where you substitute "192.168.0.10" for the actual IP address of your printer on your network.

PS: you should set a static IP address for your printer using your router, do not use DHCP or it may occasionally change the printer's IP address.

Last edited by lagagnon (2009-12-27 04:02:08)

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mojo

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Registered: 2010-07-06

Posts: 5

Re: Brother MFC-295 CN printer

There is now a proper driver for this printer. You can follow the instructions in the wiki (in the non-AUR way section) to install the rpms.

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bs … #MFC-295CN