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

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:18:08 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
I was surprised how simple the Brother (MFC-J995DW)was to setup
compared to the Canon.
My setup is LAN, fixed IP, then I went into Settings/Printers and add a
printer. That worked for me on Ubuntustudio 20.04 and Mint.

Paul