I found this link -- https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2256885 for doing what I need. I followed it and everything seems fine, but even though "Printers" recognizes both the USB and the wireless everything goes to the Print Que, but nothing prints out.
Here is the info from a --- dpkg -l | grep -i brother
fred@Lenovo-G780:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i brother
ii hll2340dcupswrapper:i386 3.2.0-1 i386 Brother HL-L2340D CUPS wrapper driver
ii hll2340dlpr:i386 3.2.0-1 i386 Brother HL-L2340D LPR driver
ii printer-driver-brlaser 3-5~ubuntu1 amd64 printer driver for (some) Brother laser printers
ii printer-driver-ptouch 1.4-1 amd64 printer driver Brother P-touch label printers
fred@Lenovo-G780:~$
This statement:
For troubleshooting purposes, you can access CUPS server errors via the error log file at: /var/log/cups/error_log.
That directory is not present in my system.
So I tried to install CUPs and found this:
fred@Lenovo-G780:~$ sudo apt install cups
[sudo] password for fred:
Reading package listsā¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā¦ Done
cups is already the newest version (2.1.3-4).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
kde-l10n-engb libkeybinder0 linux-image-4.4.0-31-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-31-generic linux-signed-image-4.4.0-31-generic
python-appindicator python-gconf python-keybinder python-prctl
Use āsudo apt autoremoveā to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
fred@Lenovo-G780:~$
The tool will be downloaded into the default "Download" directory.
(The directory location varies depending on your Linux distribution.)
e.g. /home/(LoginName)/Download
Step2. Open a terminal window and go to the directory you downloaded the file to in the last step.
In reality the files had to located in /Download/Drivers and then following their instructions everything worked and automatically installed the printer also.
