Install a printer driver

[Bill]

Hi,

I am having problems with getting a Brother MFC-J485DW printer to work
with Linux.  I am using Mint - Rebeca and the Mate desktop.

I deleted the profile for my old printer and then connected the printer
to my computer with a USB cable.  When I turned the printer on a pop-up
window said that "No printer driver for Brother MFC-J485D.  (It is
obvious that there is some communications between the printer and the
computer.) I clicked on the "search" button.
A new pop-up window that gave three choices 1. Select printer from
database  2. Provide PPD file and 3. Search for a printer driver to
download.
When I chose 1.  I was told to use a generic text only driver   I did
but when I used the text only (XED) to print up a test page, nothing
happened.

I deleted this profile and chose search for a printer driver to
download.  Nothing was found.

My question is... "How do I get this printer to work?  I obviously would
like to use as many of the features of the printer as possible.  I hope
it isn't a "Windows only" printer.  If it is, is there any way to make
it work with Linux.

Bill Stanley

[Peter McD]

Post by Bill
Hi,
I am having problems with getting a Brother MFC-J485DW printer to work
with Linux.  I am using Mint - Rebeca and the Mate desktop.
I deleted the profile for my old printer and then connected the printer
to my computer with a USB cable.  When I turned the printer on a pop-up
window said that "No printer driver for Brother MFC-J485D.  (It is
obvious that there is some communications between the printer and the
computer.) I clicked on the "search" button.
A new pop-up window that gave three choices 1. Select printer from
database  2. Provide PPD file and 3. Search for a printer driver to
download.
When I chose 1.  I was told to use a generic text only driver   I did
but when I used the text only (XED) to print up a test page, nothing
happened.
I deleted this profile and chose search for a printer driver to
download.  Nothing was found.
My question is... "How do I get this printer to work?  I obviously would
like to use as many of the features of the printer as possible.  I hope
it isn't a "Windows only" printer.  If it is, is there any way to make
it work with Linux.

From my achive, the following might help.

Peter

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From:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/511252-HowTo-Brother-MFC-printer-solutions-for-Leap-and-Tumbleweed


The solution: installing libstdc++6-32bit with its dependencies fixed it.

I have a Brother MFC-J625DW printer that I connect to over WiFI. It
normally works perfectly on Ubuntu and Arch with the manufacturer's
Linux drivers. But for the life of me I couldn't get it to work either
on Leap 42.1 or on Tumbleweed. Stranger still, I could print a test page
from the yast2-printers, and I could also print from Wine apps
(notepad), but I couldn't print a test page from system-config-printers
and I also couldn't print front LibreOffice or gedit or any other normal
program. The details in the print queue for the failed job said "filter
failed". The solution: poppler-tools needs to be installed.

On another installation, the documents I tried to print didn't give any
errors, not even in the CUPS error_log. They just simply did not print.
But I finally found an old, out of date Brother printer driver page that
reminds that the drivers are 32-bit, and so on a 64-bit system the
32-bit compatibility libs are necessary. That's what I was missing. The
solution: installing libstdc++6-32bit with its dependencies fixed it.

[Liam Proven]

Post by Bill
Hi,
I am having problems with getting a Brother MFC-J485DW printer to work
with Linux.

If you just Google for


Brother MFC-J485DW driver linux

... you will find that Brother make one available for Linux as a free download.
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[Gene Heskett]

Post by Bill
Hi,
I am having problems with getting a Brother MFC-J485DW printer to work
with Linux.  I am using Mint - Rebeca and the Mate desktop.
I deleted the profile for my old printer and then connected the
printer to my computer with a USB cable.  When I turned the printer on
a pop-up window said that "No printer driver for Brother MFC-J485D. 
(It is obvious that there is some communications between the printer
and the computer.) I clicked on the "search" button.
A new pop-up window that gave three choices 1. Select printer from
database  2. Provide PPD file and 3. Search for a printer driver to
download.
When I chose 1.  I was told to use a generic text only driver   I did
but when I used the text only (XED) to print up a test page, nothing
happened.
I deleted this profile and chose search for a printer driver to
download.  Nothing was found.
My question is... "How do I get this printer to work?  I obviously
would like to use as many of the features of the printer as possible. 
I hope it isn't a "Windows only" printer.  If it is, is there any way
to make it work with Linux.
Bill Stanley

You goto the brother site and download their linux driver and install
them. They usually work. I have two of their printers here.

-
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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[Chris Roy-Smith]

Post by Bill
Hi,
I am having problems with getting a Brother MFC-J485DW printer to work
with Linux.  I am using Mint - Rebeca and the Mate desktop.
I deleted the profile for my old printer and then connected the printer
to my computer with a USB cable.  When I turned the printer on a pop-up
window said that "No printer driver for Brother MFC-J485D.  (It is
obvious that there is some communications between the printer and the
computer.) I clicked on the "search" button.
A new pop-up window that gave three choices 1. Select printer from
database  2. Provide PPD file and 3. Search for a printer driver to
download.
When I chose 1.  I was told to use a generic text only driver   I did
but when I used the text only (XED) to print up a test page, nothing
happened.
I deleted this profile and chose search for a printer driver to
download.  Nothing was found.
My question is... "How do I get this printer to work?  I obviously would
like to use as many of the features of the printer as possible.  I hope
it isn't a "Windows only" printer.  If it is, is there any way to make
it work with Linux.
Bill Stanley

try the script mentioned here
https://jimsadventuresinlinux.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/brother-printer-installation-on-linux/
these instructions down load an installer script that downloads and
installs everything, asking only a few basic questions.

Regards, Chris