I've always just been able to download Brother drivers straight from the company, and they've always worked just fine. It's been a long time since I used that specific printer, but my parents one own, and many years ago I did use it, so I know at one time it worked.
They have a debian based installer right on their website: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc9840cdw_all Erik On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:05 AM David Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > Running Debian sid here and there are several entries in the cups > configuration utility (localhost:631) for Brotner 9840CDW. > > -- > David > > On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 00:45 -0400, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > Did you try to install the driver from Brother? > > > https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc9840cdw_all > > > > It claims to emulate PostScript 3 and PCL 6. So, it should perhaps > > work > > with generic driver, even with some older basic HP driver. > > > > I'd give it a try. > > > > -T > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 22:15 Michael Christopher Robinson < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Anyone get this printer working in Fedora 30? My brother gave it > > > to me > > > and he said he had a hard time finding drivers for it for Debian. > > > > > > -- Michael C. Robinson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
