Select 'Brother (recommended)' and click Forward The following NEW packages will be installed: a2ps brother-cups-wrapper-laser brother-lpr-drivers-common brother-lpr-drivers-laser libc6-i386 psutilsģ] In printer properties click Change next to 'Make and Model' So through days of searching and hours of trial and error and many fresh cloned virtualbox vms to make sure I was starting from scratch each time I figured out that you can just do the following:ġ] Plug printer into usb and let mint set up printerĬode: Select all sudo apt-get install brother-lpr-drivers-laser brother-cups-wrapper-laser It does come with an uninstall script, but I guess I don't know how to be sure the uninstall script truly does remove all packages and settings. And I like to be able to easily remove anything I install, but I don't have the command line skills just yet to know how to easily and accurately remove a group of packages installed at the same time via a script, which is what the Driver Install Tool does. However, it installs hundreds of packages totaling hundreds of MB and to me is a hammer approach, where I prefer to find a scalpel solution. Then I installed the Driver Install Tool from the page above and this does fix the problem. When I plug the printer into my computer it sets itself up just fine and will print basic stuff like web pages etc, but cannot reliably print PDFs and other documents.įirst I tried installing just the LPR printer driver (deb package) and then CUPSwrapper printer driver (deb package) from this page:
I am running Mint 19.3 Cinnamon and have a Brother HL-L2300D printer connected via USB. The following could work for most Brother printers. I've done the usual switch it off and on, follow support from Brother Online, speak to Brother online regarding drivers but I can just not get this stupid thing to work.ĭoes anyone have any suggestions? Am I missing anything?Just posting this in case it helps someone. Not usually an issue as it works just fine BUT because the printer is used soley through Microsoft Access when I want to change the current Label Printer to the 700 I can't because it's not listed as a printer!Īfter several attempts I have finally managed to install the machine as a printer but for all my sins all it ever does is tell me it has a communication error and it's not connected properly. The issue is for some reason after a lot of troubleshooting the printer installs as a device not a printer. I know how to install a printer! This isn't the issue. We are upgrading our brother label printers from 570's to QL 700s.
Bit of a basic one, and sorry if anyone has posted regarding this before, but I was wondering if anyone has come across this:
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