setting up a brother inkjet all-in-one on Focal Fossa

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 04:58, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a brother DCP-J957N that, near as I can recall, just worked
> on Ubuntu 18. That is, it works on my bionic beaver workstations, and
> I do not recall doing anything to actually set it up. I think it found
> the printer during the install or when I first tried printing. I also
> don't remember doing anything on my daughter's workstation, either,
> when we installed Bionic Beaver there.
>
> I've updated my daughter's workstation to 20 for reasons that may not
> have been very good, and it no longer seems to be able to communicate
> with the printer.
>
> I went to the trouble (gritting my teeth) of downloading brother's
> proprietary installer, and walked the script through, and no dice.
>
> First question, what changed? What should I have done before trying
> the install script?

Not enough info.

How is the printer connected?

USB? Ethernet? Wireless network? Something else?

If it's networked, what's its IP address?

My step 1 would have been: go into Settings/Printers and tried adding a printer.

Step 2: if that doesn't work, try the CUPS web admin page
(https://localhost:631 from memory) and try adding it there.



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