Install a printer driver

[Peter McD]

Am 16.10.18 um 18:20 schrieb Bill:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems with getting a Brother MFC-J485DW printer to work 
> with Linux.  I am using Mint - Rebeca and the Mate desktop.
> 
> I deleted the profile for my old printer and then connected the printer 
> to my computer with a USB cable.  When I turned the printer on a pop-up 
> window said that "No printer driver for Brother MFC-J485D.  (It is 
> obvious that there is some communications between the printer and the 
> computer.) I clicked on the "search" button.
> A new pop-up window that gave three choices 1. Select printer from 
> database  2. Provide PPD file and 3. Search for a printer driver to 
> download.
> When I chose 1.  I was told to use a generic text only driver   I did 
> but when I used the text only (XED) to print up a test page, nothing 
> happened.
> 
> I deleted this profile and chose search for a printer driver to 
> download.  Nothing was found.
> 
> My question is... "How do I get this printer to work?  I obviously would 
> like to use as many of the features of the printer as possible.  I hope 
> it isn't a "Windows only" printer.  If it is, is there any way to make 
> it work with Linux.

 From my achive, the following might help.

Peter

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From:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/511252-HowTo-Brother-MFC-printer-solutions-for-Leap-and-Tumbleweed


The solution: installing libstdc++6-32bit with its dependencies fixed it.

I have a Brother MFC-J625DW printer that I connect to over WiFI. It 
normally works perfectly on Ubuntu and Arch with the manufacturer's 
Linux drivers. But for the life of me I couldn't get it to work either 
on Leap 42.1 or on Tumbleweed. Stranger still, I could print a test page 
from the yast2-printers, and I could also print from Wine apps 
(notepad), but I couldn't print a test page from system-config-printers 
and I also couldn't print front LibreOffice or gedit or any other normal 
program. The details in the print queue for the failed job said "filter 
failed". The solution: poppler-tools needs to be installed.

On another installation, the documents I tried to print didn't give any 
errors, not even in the CUPS error_log. They just simply did not print. 
But I finally found an old, out of date Brother printer driver page that 
reminds that the drivers are 32-bit, and so on a 64-bit system the 
32-bit compatibility libs are necessary. That's what I was missing. The 
solution: installing libstdc++6-32bit with its dependencies fixed it.