Brother printer

[Richard Frans]

Thanks Brett, It took a little playing with it but third link had the 
info I needed except that I had to create a directory '/var/spool/lpd' 
which wasn't in the directions, then it all went smoothly and now prints 
perfectly.



Brett Alton wrote:
> The Brother drivers were packaged in 8.10 I believe, but it looks like
> your exact printer's driver hasn't been packaged.
> 
> Search Brother in the Ubuntu repositories and you'll see what I mean
> (brother-cups-* and brother-lpr-*).
> 
> If those drivers don't help, then I'd suggest searching Ubuntu Forums.
> There are usually excellent tutorials on there.
> 
> e.g.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=590793 (newbie tutorial)
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1413838 (similar printer)
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306997 (Ubuntu 9.10)
> 
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Richard Frans <rfrans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using Ubuntu 9.10. I just purchased a Brother dcp195c printer and
>> cannot get it to print. I have downloaded xxx.deb files and tried to
>> follow instructions on the Brother site but get a message that the files
>> need to be read/write when I do 'dpkg  -i  --force-all
>> dcp195clpr-1.1.2-1.deb'. When I do a check 'dpkg  -l  |  grep  Brother'
>> it show the proper printer but when I go to System Printing and try to
>> install the driver it recognizes the correct model but only has drivers
>> for other models that don't do anything. What do I need to do?
>>
>> Richard Frans
>>
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