Brother laser printer/scanner on Ethernet

[P. Echols]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 1:52 PM David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:

> Again, thanks to everyone for your advice and encouragement.
>
> My friend managed to buy a Brother DCP-L3550CDW. Needed me for starters
> just to get it up the stairs! It's a heavy beast. I plugged it into the
> Ethernet, set it with a fixed IP address. Then got the new version of
> the Brother installer script for Linux which worked like a charm.
> Printer and scanner both working nicely so she's really pleased. Now
> she just needs to leave it alone until the ink in the old Canon is used
> up.
>
> Dave
>
>
I realize the thread is old but, in case you didn't do this.  Set the
router to give the printer a static IP. I've had troubles with my brother
network printer - scanner when the DHCP server reassigned numbers on
restart.

Cheers,
PE

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