{"id":3644,"date":"2017-04-03T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:20:32","slug":"install-brother-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/install-brother-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"LINUX &#8211; How to install Brother printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"brother-printers-how-to-install-them-in-ubuntu-and-linux-mint\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><b>Brother printers: how to install them in Ubuntu and Linux Mint:<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>You can apply this how-to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installing the driver manually isn\u2019t very difficult either, because Brother has issued a generic install script for that: the Driver Install Tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b> <\/b>Sometimes it\u2019s necessary to add a printer or scanner to the system yourself, by means of the application Printers. In that case the application Printers already contains the driver for your printer, but you have to \u201cindicate\u201d the printer first.\n<ul>\n<li>So launch the application Printers. You can use the search box in your menu to find it; it\u2019s present by default in all editions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint.<\/li>\n<li>In Printers, click the button <b>Add <\/b>(with the + sign) and follow the steps it offers you.<\/li>\n<li>But if you have a multifunctional printer, this doesn\u2019t get the scanner part operational:<\/li>\n<li>you can only print. Or your printer might simply be too new for the database in your version of Linux Mint or Ubuntu. In those cases proceed with step 3:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Connect your printer to your computer by means of a USB cable (even when you intend to use it as a network printer later on: for initial installation a USB cable is often needed). Then turn on your printer.\n<ul>\n<li>With that, you can install not only the printer driver, but also (for a multifunctional printer) the scanner driver.<\/li>\n<li>You can use it as follows:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>. First remove any existing instance of the Brother printer in the application Printers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the download section of the Brother website and look up your printer model.\n<ul>\n<li>For \u201cOS Family\u201d you choose Linux.<\/li>\n<li>For \u201cOS Version\u201d you select Linux (deb).<\/li>\n<li>Click the Search button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then click the Driver Install Tool and download linux-brprinter-installer.<\/li>\n<li>Save the downloaded file in the folder Downloads. Don\u2019t extract the zipped file, but leave it there just as it is. Note: don\u2019t use the installation how-to on the Brother website, but use the installation how-to on my website instead (see below)!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch a terminal window.<i>(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Now copy\/paste the following command into the terminal, in order to unzip the downloaded file (it\u2019s one line):<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dcd%20Downloads%20%26%26%20gunzip%20-v%20~%2FDownloads%2Flinux-brprinter*%0A\u201d message=\u201dbash code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<p>Press Enter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use copy\/paste to transfer the following line to the terminal:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201d%20sudo%20bash%20~%2FDownloads%2Flinux-brprinter*%0A\u201d message=\u201dbash code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n<p>Press Enter. Type your password when prompted; this will remain entirely invisible, not even asterisks will show, which is normal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the steps that the installer script presents you. When asked for the printer model name, type it and press Enter.\n<ul>\n<li>An example is best: for a Brother DCP-1610W you type:<\/li>\n<li>DCP-1610W<\/li>\n<li>Note: is there at the end of the model name a letter between brackets? Then you probably have to omit that last letter (including the brackets).<\/li>\n<li>Example: for the Brother MFC-L9550CDW(T) it becomes:<\/li>\n<li>MFC-L9550CDW<\/li>\n<li>At the question about the Device URI, you answer N for a USB printer and Y for a network printer.<\/li>\n<li>For a network printer, you select in the next question the last option:<\/li>\n<li>(A): Auto. For that, you type the number of that option and you press Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reboot your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Now you may have to solve a problem with the scanner. In 64-bit Linux Mint 18.x and Ubuntu 16.04.x the location for the supporting library files has changed, and the driver for the scanner feature doesn\u2019t always take that into account. The Brother driver puts them in \/usr\/lib64, whereas your operating system expects them in \/usr\/lib.\n<ul>\n<li>So for a 64-bit system, you now need to execute the following three commands in order to make your scanner work well (use copy\/paste to transfer them one by one to the terminal, and press Enter after each command):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20ln%20-sf%20%2Fusr%2Flib64%2Flibbrscandec3.so*%20%2Fusr%2Flib%0A%0Asudo%20mkdir%20-p%20%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fsane%0A%0Asudo%20ln%20-sf%20%2Fusr%2Flib64%2Fsane%2Flibsane-brother3.so*%20%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fsane%0A\u201d message=\u201dbash code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<ul>\n<li>Then add yourself to the scanner user group. You can use a click-click-click graphical system tool for that, but this varies amongst editions. The terminal works in all editions\u2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An example is easiest. If your name is xxxxx, your username is xxxxx (no caps), so the terminal command would be:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20usermod%20-a%20-G%20scanner%20xxxxx%0A\u201d message=\u201dbash code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n<p>Press Enter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download this modified configuration file, which contains an essential line for Brother scanners. Leave it in the folder Downloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Now replace a configuration file by the modified file you\u2019ve just downloaded, with the following command (it\u2019s one line, use copy\/paste to transfer it to the terminal):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20cp%20-v%20~%2FDownloads%2F40-libsane.rules%20%2Flib%2Fudev%2Frules.d%2F%0A\u201d message=\u201dbash code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n<p>Press Enter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reboot your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you wish to bring this about without a downloaded file? Then open <b>\/lib\/<\/b><b>udev<\/b><b>\/<\/b><b>rules.d<\/b><b>\/40-libsane.rules. <\/b>Almost at the end of the text in that long text file, add the following two lines before the line <b>\u201cLABEL=\u201d<\/b><b>libsane_usb_rules_end<\/b><b>\u201c\u201d <\/b>(use copy\/paste to transfer them):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201d%23%20Brother%20scanners%0A%20ATTRS%7BidVendor%7D%3D%3D%2204f9%22%2C%20ENV%7Blibsane_matched%7D%3D%22yes%22%0A\u201d message=\u201dbash code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<ul>\n<li>Printers with wifi: for wireless setup, it\u2019s necessary to configure your printer to connect to your wireless network automatically. If your printer has a small display of its own, you should be able to set this up by means of that little display (see your manual).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If your printer doesn\u2019t have a display of its own, you might need to boot Windows for this. One time only, because you only need to configure the printer to connect to your wireless network automatically when you turn it on.<\/li>\n<li>Reboot into Linux, launch the application Printers, and you should be able to select your network printer wirelessly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019re done! Your printer should work fine now, including the scanner part (when present).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to install Brother printer &#8211; Connect your printer to your computer by means of a USB cable (even when you intend to use it as a network printer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1699],"tags":[6881,6885,6886,6890,6884,6880,6887,6879,6883,6892,6882,6893,6891,6878,6889,6888],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-brother-driver-install-tool","tag-brother-linux-drivers-hl-2270dw","tag-brother-lpr","tag-brother-ppd-file","tag-brother-printer-arch-linux","tag-brother-printer-device-uri","tag-brother-printer-drivers-ubuntu","tag-brother-printer-drivers-ubuntu-64-bit","tag-brother-printer-linux-mint","tag-cups-lpr","tag-cups-or-lpr-ubuntu","tag-device-uri","tag-l-p-r-hampton-roads","tag-linux-brprinter-installer","tag-lpr-command-in-linux-with-examples","tag-ubuntu-lpr-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}