Brother printer network support/install and setup

[Roo79x]

Okay as just a thought experiment I figured I had nothing to lose so I removed manjaro-printer and hplip.
Before I did I typed out everything that both had as dependencies (I hope I format this right lol)

from hplip
python-dbus python-distro ghostscript net-snmp foomatic-db-engine python-gobject 
libxcrypt cups sane python-pillow python-reportlab rpcbind python-pyqt5 libusb wget

from manjaro-printer
cups cups-pdf cups-pk-helper ghostscript gsfonts foomatic-db foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds 
python-gobject python-pyqt5 python-pysmbc python-reportlab splix colord-sane system- 
config-printer print-manager skanlite

there seems to be very few packages difference between hplip and manjaro-printer. Once those to were removed I did

sudo pacman -S cups cups-pdf cups-pk-helper python-dbus python-distro ghostscript net- 
snmp foomatic-db-engine python-gobject libxcrypt sane python-pillow python-reportlab    
rpcbind python-pyqt5 libusb wget gsfonts foomatic-db foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds python- 
pysmbc splix colord-sane system-config-printer print-manager skanlite

the brother-dcpj152w was still installed from before

rebooted (again…) as I did after installing lib32-gcc-libs and brother-dcpj152w

went to kde settings > printers > add printer followed the steps and used the fully driverless drivers and everything is working perfectly.

I can’t definitively say it absolutely was hplip (you would be better at guessing that than me) but it’s my guess as that is the only actual package that really changed. From what little I understand manjaro-printer just is used to install all the other packages. Users should not have to go through this kind of hell to get a printer working and it shows that the Manjaro devs have no logical reason to make hplip a mandatory package of manjaro-printer by all means have it installed by default and as an optional dependency but not as a mandatory package. That’s just my opinion anyway.

@SLaItEr You are a legend mate Thank you so very much. best of luck and I hope to see you on the forums at some point in the future

To everyone else thank you for taking the time and helping as well I really appreciate it

[SLaItEr]

Perfect and thx

One little side note.
driverless always work, but not all options of the printer driver are available so its my last resort if with driver does not work. Thats why I wanted to check if the driver does the job first.

With network printing and Bonjour this option is always present for basis printing and that is because not all manufacturers supplying drivers for Linux. This way all printers can work. Its also possible for USB connected printers but then you need IPP over USB.

[Roo79x]

there is a strange thing though if I type hp in the application dashboard search both hp device manager and hp-uiscan still show up under applications but they do not work. I guess the Manjaro Devs love hp that much

[jrichard326]

in xfce you can right click on it and choose to hide the application or use Menu Editor (Menu Libre) to deal with that. I am guessing you still have a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications and possibly elsewhere. Little things like that bother me too.

[Roo79x]

Thanks. I’m using KDE. I know about menu editor