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I'm trying to get my Brother MFC-7360N usb printer to work but so far all I can make it do is feed some paper. I'm using cups-usblp since I couldn't even get paper to feed with regular cups. There is a PPD for the printer but it doesn't respond at all when I try it and the generic drivers will just feed paper. I'm also using the gnome printer tool on XFCE4 in 64 bit arch if any of that matters. I feel like I'm just missing something obvious so hopefully someone can help me out.
Last edited by recharge330 (2011-08-30 21:32:53)
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You need to use the Brother drivers: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bs … l#MFC-7360
and follow the instructions at their website. You might also want to refer to other Brother printer ArchLinux wiki entries.
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Alright, I can get the test page to print just fine after following the steps on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Brother_MFC-420CN but the printer doesn't show up on the standard print menu (the one with the general and page setup tabs). It only shows print to file. If I try to print from libreoffice or gvim It tries to print a large log of some sort. Any ideas would be appreciated. I don't know how to get the log to a file so I'll just type some of it here.
%%Language Level: 3
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
%%DocumentMedia: plain 612 792 0 () ()
then later it goes on to
currentdict end setpagedevice
} {
pop pop
} ifelse
} def
/pdfStartPage {
pdfDictSize dict begin
/pdfFillCS [] def
and continues on like that
Last edited by recharge330 (2011-08-30 21:33:45)
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I still don't know why I get the log when I try to print directly but I can use lpr to print pdfs just fine which is all I need, but if anyone has any ideas I'd still like to fix it if at all possible.
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SUCCESS, did some more digging and found this thread, updated the 'file' package and now everything works as intended.
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