Install Brother Printer Driver Ubuntu

I am trying to install a printer driver off the support.brother.com website for my new HL-L2360DW. I currently have the printer connected through an Ethernet cable to my router. The Network configuration of the printer has been printed out and everything looks OK; the link status is OK. ************************************************** * Brother site instructions [: Download LPR driver. Login as a superuser ( or use 'sudo' option if required). Install the driver. Turn on the printer and connect the usb, network or parallel cable.

Go to the directory where the driver is. Install LPR driver.The install process may take some time. Please wait until it is complete. Command: dpkg -i --force-all (lpr-drivername) Check if the LPR driver is installed.

Brother Drivers for Linux® distributions. Before the Installation. Instruction; Printer (CUPS): Driver Install Print Command More Information Printer. Plug you printer into your system and see if ubuntu dectects it and looks for a driver for it automatically. If not, download the driver from this website, and follow these. So let's do that and now my printer is printing out. So let's show you that while I get through these other. (SOLVED) Installing Brother printer drivers Ubuntu. Post by webesteen » Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:24 pm. I am about to uninstall Zorin but I want to give it one more chance, as I am not too eager to return to Vista, if someone would please explain to me how to install the drivers for my Brother DCP-J140W.

Command: dpkg -l grep Brother ************************************************** ************** I downloaded the file: hll2360dlpr-3.2.0-1.i386.deb. When I click on that file in my Downloads folder Archive Manager invokes with the information shown on the attached screenshot image.

I am unsure what the 'lpr-drivername' is supposed to be. Any help is greatly appreciated or if there is a simpler way to do this.

Dnssd://Brother%20HL-2270DW%20series._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/ That's what I have for my wireless Brother printer URI, if it is of any help, which it won't be unless you have the correct drivers installed. As I mentioned previously, install the CUPS driver, open a browser, go to 'localhost:631' (put that in the address bar of the browser). Chessboard Pdf Open Cv there. You should be able to install the driver via CUPS (add printer) and that should be pretty much it. That's what I generally do nowdays when this situation arises.