Brother MFC J280W compatibility

**user_linux** · April 20th, 2013

Hi,
I am trying to install this printer in ubuntu 12.04 LTS but I encounter the problem of driver downlaoding. I went to Brother's website and tried to install both LPR and cupswrapper driver but when I first install LPR driver it gives me a message of "The package is of Bad quality. The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath." Is there any easy way to install this printer?

Thanks a dozen.

**uzumakifahim** · April 20th, 2013

Hope from this post you'll get good support.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2087489

Let us know, if you are successful about this printer on Ubuntu.

**user_linux** · April 20th, 2013

but in this post it doesn't mention anythinga 'bout the message i am getting?

**pdc** · April 21st, 2013

hi there linux user;

my tuppence happeny worth........

Brother provide an installer......that should automate the install for you.........

post #5 in this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...7#post12342527

gives a very detailed description of what mambo did to get it all working........can I suggest you try the Brother installer and see if it helps you?

he called it mambo801.sh but you could call it user_linux.sh as it is yours

**kurt18947** · April 21st, 2013

Brother offers an installer script which I've used with success. Here are the instructions on Brother's site:

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...rn.html#f00104

I found downloading the script a bit unintuitive but once I figured it out it's worked okay. One caution though. I just used that script a couple days ago and it found a BUNCH of updates and asked me if I wanted to install them. I declined then the Brother software installed as expected. The printer works fine. After the printer software finished installing I reran "sudo apt-get update" then "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". There were not a great number of updates available. I don't know what the Brother script found but heads-up on that. I use gnome shell and the printer administration app sucks. I don't know what Unity uses. The old printer admin app is available in the repositories so I installed it from there. The name is system-config-printer-gnome. That app offers much more information and more options. I created a desktop launcher to make my life simpler.