Success with Brother MFC-L2710DW 4 in 1

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2019-01-23 14:55, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 23 Jan 2019 at 14:36:06 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> 
>> Gah.  You have my apologies -- I just installed a slightly different 
>> model a
>> couple weeks ago, and it works great, but *did* require some tweaking 
>> on my
>> part.
>> Here are the settings I've got that seem applicable:
>> URI: ipp://BRWFC017CABDEB9.local:631/ipp/print
>> Driver: definitely using the Brother driver
>> 
>> See if you can get it going; if you can't, feel free to ping me, and 
>> I'll
>> see if I can't do an install on another computer and get you more 
>> detailed
>> info.
> 
> Why did you set it up like that? Any modern printer on the network is
> automatically detected and set up by CUPS + cups-browsed on a recent
> Ubuntu installation. No need to faff about with Brother's drivers.

Gosh.  First and foremost, as much as I love the CUPS-supplied drivers, 
they don't always do everything I need.  But now you have me doubting 
myself.  I'll have to try out the install myself and see what I did.

-Ken