Need help with installing my Brother DCP-T500W printer

[jrichard326]

It is available from the AUR (Arch User Repositories)

In terminal or with pamac GUI:

pamac build brother-dcpt500w 

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-dcpt500w

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