Help with installing printer and drivers

[bisctboy]

Hi,

This is my first post to this board and I am a "newbie" as they say. I do have some limited work with Linux and have played around with it on laptops but I am a rookie at best.

I just received the 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 yesterday and was shocked at what this thing can do! I was surfing the web and watching YT videos last night for hours. I had no idea how "zippy" and fast it would be and I am very pleasantly surprised!

I want to install my Brother MFC-7340 printer onto the Pi and spent most of the morning watching videos on how to install a printer onto the Pi. I successfully installed CUPS and went to the local host port 631 on my browser. CUPS recognized my printer exactly but the correct printer drivers were not listed. I tried a couple that were close to my model# put nothing prints.

Brother has the MFC-7340 Linux printer driver for download so I downloaded it onto my Pi. I am making the assumption I need the (deb) version rather than the (rpm) version for PI? CUPS has an option for you to choose a driver file instead of the choosing the limited drivers provided. I did this with the download driver but it gave me an error saying there was something wrong.

Do I need to do something with the downloaded driver file for it to work? I did extract the compressed file by clicking "Extract Here" but that didn't work either and CUPS gave me the same error.

I am assuming I need to do some command line stuff to install the driver but I don't know how to do this. Again, I looked all over the web for videos or forums on this for a beginner and I came up empty...please help.

Thanks,

Marshall

[bjtheone]

CUPs wants a .ppd (postscript printer desciption) file. There is information on how to create them here:

https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answer ... n---linux

Once you have a .ppd file, from the CUPs admin page select add a printer and go through the usual stuff and then select the "Provide a PPD file" option and select the file you downloaded. Unfortunately this printer does not appear to be supported by www.openprinting.org nor do Brother directly provide ppd files.

[raspianhacks]

Hi

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing
it's work with all printers

LG

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi,

This is my first post to this board and I am a "newbie" as they say. I do have some limited work with Linux and have played around with it on laptops but I am a rookie at best.

I just received the 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 yesterday and was shocked at what this thing can do! I was surfing the web and watching YT videos last night for hours. I had no idea how "zippy" and fast it would be and I am very pleasantly surprised!

I want to install my Brother MFC-7340 printer onto the Pi and spent most of the morning watching videos on how to install a printer onto the Pi. I successfully installed CUPS and went to the local host port 631 on my browser. CUPS recognized my printer exactly but the correct printer drivers were not listed. I tried a couple that were close to my model# put nothing prints.

Brother has the MFC-7340 Linux printer driver for download so I downloaded it onto my Pi. I am making the assumption I need the (deb) version rather than the (rpm) version for PI? CUPS has an option for you to choose a driver file instead of the choosing the limited drivers provided. I did this with the download driver but it gave me an error saying there was something wrong.

Do I need to do something with the downloaded driver file for it to work? I did extract the compressed file by clicking "Extract Here" but that didn't work either and CUPS gave me the same error.

I am assuming I need to do some command line stuff to install the driver but I don't know how to do this. Again, I looked all over the web for videos or forums on this for a beginner and I came up empty...please help.

Thanks,

Marshall

Brother do not provide Linux ARMHF Drivers suitable for Raspbian Buster, any driver file will be for x86 CPU Architecture machines (as clearly stated by Brother)..

...the Raspberry Pi SBC is ARM CPU Architecture !



It is as far as I can ascertain a Laser Printer and connected via USB and has no networking capabilities.


Maybe see if the brlaser package will recognise ?

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install brlaser

oops that should be printer-driver-brlaser thanks rpdom

[bisctboy]

I did the update and then ran the ' sudo apt install brlaser'. Below is what I got back:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install brlaser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package brlaser

Looks like I don't have have brlaser?

[rpdom]

Try printer-driver-brlaser instead. That is the full package name for it, I believe.

[bisctboy]

Hi

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing
it's work with all printers

LG

This HP software will work with the Brother printer I have?

[bisctboy]

Try printer-driver-brlaser instead. That is the full package name for it, I believe.

BOOM!!! That worked and now my MFC-7340 prints on the RPi...

I chose the brlaser v4 in the list and it printed.

Thanks for your help!

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing
it's work with all printers

LG

This HP software will work with the Brother printer I have?

Nope......