I have this same printer running flawlessly in our Ubuntu only network
(ok, there are some windows VMs too, but that doesn't matter for this
discussion...).
I went to Brother's website and downloaded the appropriate drivers for
the printer and scanner.
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html
On that page are links to installation instructions for Linux. These
basically break down into.
1. Download the appropriate driver (link is provided where you can pick
the model from the list)
2. Install the driver (follow the instructions)
3. Ubuntu "just works" now as you would expect. I.e. add a printer
normally, and pick the appropriate Brother printer driver from the list.
I remember going through the same process for the scanner, but thinking
I may not have needed too. The printer driver may be complete enough to
handle everything.
I use the printer from a network connection (no USB or other direct
connection to the PCs). All functions work as expected. For quick
scans, I use the "Simple Scan" program (it's in the software
repositories). But The Gimp works too when qtinsane is installed.
I'm impressed with the printer - it is FAST and easily handles pages my
previous printer struggled with (i.e. Some PDFs with embedded
graphics/fonts, or large graphics).
Hope that helps.
Shawn
On 11-11-15 05:16 PM, Ralph Boland wrote:
I recently purchased a Brother DCP-7065DN printer.
I got it work fairly quickly with a Windows machine Kin loaned me with
the data going through my router.
But I have not been able to run it from my Ubuntu 11.04 machine.
I first tried to download the network driver from the Brother web site
and followed
the instructions there but this didn't work.
I then discovered the printer installation facility on Ubuntu and tried that.
Unfortunately my printer is not listed with that facility so I tried the closest
printer: DCP-7045DN.
The printer was able to recognize that my computer was sending it something
but all I got were a seemingly infinite list of blank pages printed.
I was still going through my router.
I eventually gave up on getting this to work and went back to the
Brother web site
and tried downloading again.
I downloaded the driver to run with lpr (with usb plug connected
directly to printer) and ran the command:
dpkg -i --force-all printername.deb
This seemed to work but at the end I got the message:
start: Unknown job lpd
I assumed I needed to start the printer deamon and didn't know how to
so I did a restart.
Still no luck. I eventually ran:
ps -alx | grep lpd
and got the line:
0 1000 2892 2833 20 0 4152 848 pipe_w S+ pts/2 0:00
grep --color=auto lpd
Which I assume to be my grep command.
I am still assuming that the printer daemon needs to be started somehow.
The /etc/printcap file is:
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
Brother-DCP-7065DN|Brother DCP-7065DN:rm=andromeda:rp=Brother-DCP-7065DN:
If, for a small file junk, I run:
lpr junk
and then run lpq I get
Brother-DCP-7065DN is not ready
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
1st rocky 22 junk 1024 bytes
Note that I tried both the router route and the usb cable route but
got the same result each
time.
Searching the Internet told a lot of things about lpd
but not how to get the printer daemon running.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing and what I should do?
Warning some of the information above is from memory so there could be minor
errors.
Thanks
Ralph (Rocky) Boalnd
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