Need help to make a Brother printer working
by theCapitain from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FF4D)
Hello, I have a brand new Brother MCF-J6945DW inkjet printer.
I followed the instruction I found in the Slackware howtos; it's for a different model bu I assumed was fine for mine. I only installed the printer driver, since I don't need to scan from PC.
Then I configured the printer according to Brother website for a network connected printer: basically they say to set
Device: "LPD/LPR Host or Printer"
Device URI: lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1
The problem is that the printer doesn't print. Attached is the error log file with debug level set to "debug" after attempting to print a test page. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me much, but I don't see errors.
I made a trial, using a different driver among those listed by CUPS (for a different printer model) and the test page come out, but in greyscale, no colors. But this test tells me that the network and the printer works. I've also installed the colord package, following a tip posted somewhere on the web.
In order to double-check I installed the Brother driver on a MX Linux PC and it works, it prints fine, even if the driver name and the protocol are different from those I've set in Slackware (you know, Debian based distros, they set everything on their own). So probably I miss something on my Slackware installation.
Can anyone help me?
Attached Files
I followed the instruction I found in the Slackware howtos; it's for a different model bu I assumed was fine for mine. I only installed the printer driver, since I don't need to scan from PC.
Then I configured the printer according to Brother website for a network connected printer: basically they say to set
Device: "LPD/LPR Host or Printer"
Device URI: lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1
The problem is that the printer doesn't print. Attached is the error log file with debug level set to "debug" after attempting to print a test page. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me much, but I don't see errors.
I made a trial, using a different driver among those listed by CUPS (for a different printer model) and the test page come out, but in greyscale, no colors. But this test tells me that the network and the printer works. I've also installed the colord package, following a tip posted somewhere on the web.
In order to double-check I installed the Brother driver on a MX Linux PC and it works, it prints fine, even if the driver name and the protocol are different from those I've set in Slackware (you know, Debian based distros, they set everything on their own). So probably I miss something on my Slackware installation.
Can anyone help me?
Attached Files
 | error.log (46.9 KB) |