Brother MFC-J1260W Printer

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I have no idea how to get this thing running on Manjaro. The drivers are provided in .rpm or .deb, the formatting is completely different from the tutorial I found about converting drivers, there’s no AUR packages for it… I tried extracting the cups and pdd file, putting the former in /usr/lib/cups/filter, and using GUI to grab the latter (which is located in home) and now the printer is RECOGNIZED, but any attempt to print with it fails. It says something about “Filter failure.” I also can’t remove anything from the printing queue.

For record, I am using it wired. It runs perfectly on windows 10, so I know it’s not the printer’s fault.

Inxi output 
❯ inxi -zv8
System:
  Kernel: 6.18.42-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.1.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-6.18-x86_64
    root=UUID=246a4db0-4152-46c2-94e0-79b1495fe607 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet splash udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.28.0
    wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS WIFI II v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required>
    Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends v: 2806 date: 10/27/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming
    Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: discharging
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.52 GiB used: 5.57 GiB (35.9%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB slots: 4 modules: 2 EC: None
    max-module-size: 32 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered)
    size: 8 GiB speed: 2133 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
    width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: G-Skill
    part-no: F4-3200C16-8GVKB serial: N/A
  Device-2: DIMM_A2 type: no module installed
  Device-3: DIMM_B1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered)
    size: 8 GiB speed: 2133 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
    width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: G-Skill
    part-no: F4-3200C16-8GVKB serial: N/A
  Device-4: DIMM_B2 type: no module installed
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 3
    level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
    model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xA201211
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB
    desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB desc: 1x32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3593 min/max: 561/4654 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave cores: 1: 3593 2: 3593 3: 3593
    4: 3593 5: 3593 6: 3593 7: 3593 8: 3593 9: 3593 10: 3593 11: 3593 12: 3593
    bogomips: 88632
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de debug_swap decodeassists erms
    extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt
    ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce
    misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt
    nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni
    popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep
    sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
    stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip
    user_shstk v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall
    vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt
    xsaves xtopology
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: old_microcode status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
    STIBP: always-on; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
    affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa mitigation: Clear CPU buffers
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
    vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-4 code: Navi-4x
    process: TSMC n4 (4nm) built: 2025+ pcie: gen: 5 speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:7590 class-ID: 0300
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.24 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.13
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 model: Acer V227Q serial: <filter> built: 2020 res:
    mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red:
    x: 0.647 y: 0.333 green: x: 0.322 y: 0.627 blue: x: 0.153 y: 0.047 white:
    x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55") diag: 546mm (21.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1280x960,
    1280x800, 1152x864, 1280x720, 1024x768, 832x624, 800x600, 720x576,
    720x480, 640x480, 720x400
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland:
    drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.1.6-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT (radeonsi gfx1200 ACO
    DRM 3.64 6.18.42-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:7590 memory: 15.62 GiB
    unified: no display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.357 layers: 6 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
    Radeon RX 9060 XT (RADV GFX1200) driver: mesa radv v: 26.1.6-arch1.1
    device-ID: 1002:7590 surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 48 HDMI/DP Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 5 speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 0a:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab40 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0c:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.18.42-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [Filogic
    330] vendor: AzureWave driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 13d3:3563
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 816.61 GiB (29.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:4 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD BLACK SN750 SE 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 711130WD temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 4B2QEXM7 temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: CC46 scheme: MBR
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 583.74 GiB (62.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:6
    label: N/A uuid: 246a4db0-4152-46c2-94e0-79b1495fe607
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 668 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:5 label: N/A
    uuid: 9DA5-A68D
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 583.74 GiB (62.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:6
    label: N/A uuid: 246a4db0-4152-46c2-94e0-79b1495fe607
  ID-4: /mnt/668EB1FA8EB1C2BB raw-size: 931.51 GiB
    size: 931.51 GiB (100.00%) used: 232.87 GiB (25.0%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda1
    maj-min: 8:1 label: ShareAndBackup uuid: 668EB1FA8EB1C2BB
  ID-5: /var/cache raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 583.74 GiB (62.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:6
    label: N/A uuid: 246a4db0-4152-46c2-94e0-79b1495fe607
  ID-6: /var/log raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 583.74 GiB (62.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:6
    label: N/A uuid: 246a4db0-4152-46c2-94e0-79b1495fe607
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 900.25 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: CAD8CA28D8CA129D
  ID-3: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
    uuid: EE7B-F740
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: IMC Networks Wireless_Device type: bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 3 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 power: 100mA chip-ID: 13d3:3563 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 16mA chip-ID: 0b05:1939 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 1-7:4 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Ducky One 3 TKL RGB type: HID,keyboard,mouse
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 3233:8311 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-2:3 info: Logitech USB Receiver type: keyboard,mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 98mA
    chip-ID: 046d:c53f class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 3-4:4 info: Brother Industries MFC-J1260W type: printer
    driver: usblp interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 power: 2mA chip-ID: 04f9:0743 class-ID: 0701 serial: <filter>
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.5 C mobo: 38.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
    mem: 38.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Repos:
  Packages: 1641 pm: pacman pkgs: 1622 libs: 498 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
    pkgs: 19
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://ohioix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://manjaro.mirror.wearetriple.com/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://mirror.rabisu.com/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    4: https://mirror.alwyzon.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    5: https://gsl-syd.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    6: https://mirror.phoepsilonix.love/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    7: https://mirror.kamtv.ru/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    8: https://mirrors.pku.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 362
  1: cpu: 5.7% command: firefox pid: 9626 mem: 761.8 MiB (4.7%)
  2: cpu: 3.8% command: firefox pid: 11162 mem: 324.9 MiB (2.0%)
  3: cpu: 2.4% command: steam pid: 1777 mem: 396.6 MiB (2.4%)
  4: cpu: 2.3% command: konsole pid: 11839 mem: 111.8 MiB (0.7%)
  5: cpu: 1.9% command: steamwebhelper pid: 2173 mem: 535.3 MiB (3.3%)
  Memory top: 5 of 362
  1: mem: 761.8 MiB (4.7%) command: firefox pid: 9626 cpu: 5.7%
  2: mem: 560.0 MiB (3.5%) command: baloo_file pid: 785 cpu: 0.3%
  3: mem: 535.3 MiB (3.3%) command: steamwebhelper pid: 2173 cpu: 1.9%
  4: mem: 498.0 MiB (3.1%) command: exe pid: 1547 cpu: 1.8%
  5: mem: 462.5 MiB (2.9%) command: ./steamwebhelper pid: 2042 cpu: 0.4%
Info:
  Processes: 362 Power: uptime: 1h 47m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.16 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 261 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Compilers: clang: 22.1.8 gcc: 16.1.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9.2
    running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.41
2

It’s hard to tell what exactly you did. I would recommend to undo all changes you did and instead first try a generic Brother printer package brother-brgenml1 which is in the AUR. If you are on Plasma you can select the driver (after installation) from “System Settings → Printers”.

3

I have a MFC-1910W (black and white, with scanner) :wink:

You select Linux and deb package.

Then choose “Driver install tool”, it’s a bash script you’ll have to launch in a console to install printer and scanner drivers for your printer model.

You’ll need to install the DPKG package from the Manjaro repository before running the script.

Unpack and launch the script, write the printer model and it will do all by itself.

For the Scanner, i could not made it recognized as the printer (automatically with lpd), when the script ask for the scanner, i put the ip address of the printer to have the scanner working (not a big deal).

4

I wonder a bit since it’s a deb package at the core how it resolves dependencies - because regardless of how you install the driver the brother drivers will depend on lib32-glibc.

5

So, I went to follow clarkb’s instructions and found that despite the website saying it’d be a .deb, what I actually ended up with was a shell script… Attempting to “Run In Console” threw an error about needing to be run in root.

6

It’s an interesting approach, but nothing that would have come to my mind. Because the more obvious approaches are 1) use a generic driver provided via the AUR 2) if this doesn’t work download (not running them) the brother-mfc-j1205w build files and modify them to download and install the drivers for the MFC-J1260W instead. Now since the latter could turn out to be more complicated than it sounds going for 1) first makes a lot of sense.

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8

I checked and i have lib32-glibc installed along with some others lib32 libraries, it may have been a dependency for it or something else… i don’t truly remember.
All i know is that i installed the printer/scanner this way on 3 computers with manjaro, and it worked on all.
I used this because i could not had the scanner working when i installed the AUR printer driver.

9

This article seems to be out of date and the PKGBUILD doens’t look like the ones you can download from the AUR currently like brother-mfc-j1205w.

10

It built fine. Whether it works, I don’t know as I don’t own this printer. Right, this particular model is not in AUR so PKGBUILD converts the .deb to .zst

11

This isn’t much of a help, then, i’m afraid. I don’t think it’s a good idea to post a PKGBUILD if you can’t verify whether it solves the issue.

I think you could figure out why it was installed using pactree from the pacman-contrib package. Just out of curiosity whether it was installed already so your approach for the brother installation worked or if the dependency was in the deb package and this script resolved it. The point is without the lib32-glibc the brother printer driver can’t work and lib32 needn’t be installed normally since 32bit is long gone.

This could also explain it because this installs the lib32-glibc as dependency.

12

Have it your way. I deleted the post.

13

But there are two tools in the AUR for converting an .rpm or a .deb into an ALPM package.

  • debtap
  • rpmtoarch
14

Well conversion is part of it but because the devil is sometimes in the details (and debian or fedora aren’t really arch) you can find additionally sort of “patches” in the PKGBUILDs (not only for the brother printers but generally) to make things work on the arch system. Not always but sometimes.

15

The printer i have MFC-1910W is rather old 2014, so no MOPRIA compatible.
The script last update is from 2025 but the deb packages on the download page are from 2014, that’s surely why they do need a 32 bit library.
I tried to install the printer in a virtual machine with the script and i could print and scan.
The driver needs the “lib32-glibc” (and DPKG package for installation) only to work (not installed by the script).
I could install the library with pamac, it’s in the Manjaro core repository.

16

I know, but if all else fails, it’s worth a try. That’s why those two PKGBUILDs exist. :wink:

17

I should blame Brother instead - they crafted software for Windows, but not for Linux.

I found, in the AUR, software for the Brother DCP-T230 and installed that - did you try the same?

We have cups, which works quite well with my Brother - though I had to jiggle some config to enable a few preferences (like the rear feed which I couldn’t select before).

brscan5 supports scanning.

Generic brother-mfc-* may work, like the j825dw, j985dw…

But there’s also debtap and rpmextract for the exact rpm/deb packages.

But you’re right, Brother sucks for this - and for only providing rpm and deb and no source code.

This isn’t a Linux fault, and I’m sure you’re aware that nothing works with Windblows if you don’t install drivers.

You can also open cups in the browser:

http://localhost:631/printers/?

So overall I’m happy, I saved not buying the WiFi printer - 2480 THB instead of paying 3450 THB (65 Euro instead of 90.36 Euro) - not a great deal of money considering it comes with ink (4 bottles worth 26 Euro, leaving the cost of the printer at a ridiculous 39 Euro - the same as the cheap printers of old that came with a tiny ink reservoir and very expensive replacements).

Cheer up, it’s likely do-able… but you have to step away from ‘why didn’t this get sorted for me’ and work out if anyone worked it out, and if you can fix it yourself.

debtap filename.deb
sudo pacman -U filename.pkg.tar.zst
18

Actually this seems to support airprint a.k.a. ipp and should work without drivers. At least the printing part. Are you sure you have everything printer related? Manjaro-printing? Cups? Avahi running?

19

If it’s MOPRIA compatible printer then it may be just a firewall ports issue, on your PC or router.

MOPRIA needs 2 or 3 ports (5353 UDP, 631 TCP and perhaps 3702 UDP) if i remember well (sorry i don’t have actual MOPRIA compatible printer at home to test).

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Quite - though I had to edit my ppd file to get everything finished (couldn’t select the rear feed on mine).

It’s great now, previously when printing from the rear feed (by design) you had to go press a button on the printer, but it ignores this now so I can print straight from the desktop when I want to do card printing or just pull A4 paper from the tray.

I’m not saying it was easy, or simple - the config file is long and not entirely transparent, but with a bit of aissistance I filtered out the hallucinations and (with the aid of backups) didn’t stray too far from the path.

Took me 90 minutes total.