Success with Brother MFC-L2710DW 4 in 1

[Brian]

On Wed 23 Jan 2019 at 15:00:52 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:

> 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.

There aren't any CUPS-supplied drivers, in fact, there are no drivers at
all. It just works.

(You would have to specify exactly what it is you need from the printing
system to advance a persuasive argument).

-- 
Brian.