Talk:Brother networked printer

Working Configuration
Working Configuration:


 * Printer: Brother MFC 8880 DN
 * System:
 * 3.17.7-gentoo :-)
 * default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop/gnome/systemd
 * net-print/cups-1.7.5
 * Driver: Files
 * mfc8880dnlpr-2.0.3-1.i386.rpm
 * cupswrapperMFC8880DN-2.0.4-1.i386.rpm

Perfect, as usual with GENTOO ... — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trenzinger (talk • contribs)

DCP-1610W Series
Driver files: - dcp1610wlpr-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm - dcp1610wcupswrapper-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm
 * Tested for Brother DCP-1612WR
 * System: Linux 4.9.34-gentoo
 * CUPS 2.0.1

1. Unpack rpm packages to wlpr and cupswrapper

2. Run following commands:

mkdir -p "/usr/libexec/cups/filter" mkdir -p "/usr/share/cups/model/Brother" cp -r wlpr/opt / cp -r wlpr/var / cp cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_DCP1610W /usr/libexec/cups/filter/ cp cupswrapper/brother-DCP1610W-cups-en.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/Brother/

3. Configure your printer via CUPs interface

Generic driver instructions not compatible with multilib?
I notice that the Generic LPR printer driver on AMD64 section holds instructions on manually deploying. Is this needed? Shouldn't this be automatically covered by multilib profiles?

I've made some slight changes already on the section to use rather than  and  but I'm still not convinced the documented approach is the correct one.

--SwifT (talk) 12:24, 21 November 2017 (UTC)