I recently performed a fresh install of Hardy Heron on my Dell Inspiron 640m. Hence, I had to re-install my printer. Coming from a Microsoft Windows background, this setup took me quite a while to figure out. The Brother: Linux Driver Homepage did not help much in terms of the procedure. Their FAQ was confusing. But, they did provide the drivers that would actually work. Hardy Heron auto-detected the printer but the default driver could not print.
- From the Brother Linux Driver Homepage, download the appropriate LPR Printer Driver and CUPS Printer Driver. Note that you should get the Debian package. These turned out to be dcp135clpr-1.0.1-1.i386.deb and dcp135ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386.deb respectively.
- In a terminal, type the following
These should be performed sequentially. (For some reason, the mkdir command can't seem to create nested directories.)Code:sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model sudo mkdir /var/spool/lpd/ sudo mkdir /var/spool/lpd/dcp135c
- Install the debian driver package for LPR Printer Driver.
- Install the debian driver package for CUPS Printer Driver.
The Brother printer is now installed. The required ppd file will be installed in /usr/share/cups/model. For some odd reason, the /var/spool/lpd/dcp135c directory cannot be viewed. It claims that I am not the owner. The owner is "lp" and the group is "lp". I presume this to be an issue with access rights.
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