Brother Printer

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Why is it so difficult to add printers in Linux. Brother HL-2270dw will not work. I have tried it through the linux add printer and also cups online. Had this trouble a couple of years ago with a brother printer and could never make it work. When I finally changed to and HP , then there was no problem. Linux with printer issues is one of those things that keeps me from using Linux for everything.

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Really I do not own any Brother printers.
Primarily I have HP and Canon near me. Both brands work well.
As far I know, Japanese brands provide good support for their printers in Linux.

About your Brother model there are two positive moments:

  • OpenPrinting database lists it as Mostly working.

  • Brother site has driver for Linux with deb-packages

    If I understand things correctly, then the driver installation is really simple:

    cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006893/linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-2.gz
gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-2.gz
sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-2 HL-2270DW
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I have a Brother Printer (and have installed it on at least 6 different PCs and Laptops).
Go to Brothers Support site and download the proper drivers to Downloads
https://support.brother.com/g/b/countrytop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en

for your machine:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=hl2270dw_all

select Linux and .deb
then select: driver install tool>english>agree to the EULA and download> and your driver will pop up for download.

Printer Driver Tool
Printer Driver Tool763×250 18 KB

I have not gotten gunzip to work, I use engrampa to extract the file in Downloads
Then:
cd Downloads
cd Setup
sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1 (driver you downloaded)
model no. MFC-J480DW (your model)
Will you specify the Device URI? [Y/n] ->n
Test Print? [y/N] ->y

The only OS I was unable to get this to work was Parrot OS, because everything is sandboxed. Good Luck.

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I have a Brother HL-L2370DW printer, and it works perfectly. It is a network printer, and the 'add a printer' dialog just found it and set it up. I did not have to download any drivers from Brother or do any running of installers or anything like that.

This is probably not real helpful, but at least you know that Brother printers can work.

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Thanks so much, This did the trick.

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