Printer setup - Brother hl1212w

[rrwwcs6]

Hallo. Needing some help.
I am running Manjaro xfce4
There are no installation files in AUR for my Brother hl1212w.
I found a topic -in arch-: “Packaging Brother printer drivers” (the formum does not allow me to paste links).
Does anybody know if that works in Manjaro?
I have already built the PKGBUILD as the article suggests (still didn’t try to run them -first timer in doing that-):

**PKBUILD LPR

Maintainer: Tim Cassels ********

pkgname=brother-hl1212w-lpr-bin
pkgver=3.0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc=“LPR driver for Brother HL-1212w printer”
arch=(“i686” “x86_64”)
url="**"
license=(“EULA”)
groups=(“base-devel”)
source=("")
md5sums=(“00aa4739eef05a882ba78a071ef7cf99”)
package() {
tar -xf data.tar.gz -C “${pkgdir}”
}

**PKBUILD CUPS

Maintainer: Tim Cassels ******

pkgname=brother-hl1212w-cups-bin
pkgver=3.0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc=“CUPS wrapper for Brother HL-1212w printer”
arch=(“i686” “x86_64”)
url=“"
license=(“EULA”)
groups=(“base-devel”)
source=("*”)
md5sums=(“740a9efab40e65b3024917c1a49022fd”)
package() {
tar -xf data.tar.gz -C “${pkgdir}”
}

Any suggestions? (now I am supposed to makepkg them…).
Thanks,
R.

[Fabby]

If you cannot find your exact printer driver:

@rrwwcs6

Brother hl1212w

you should use a search engine and add “Linux PPD” and that brings me to:

https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-1210W

which says:

Brother HL-1230 driver is recommended, so try that first if you can find that in your standard repository…

Note: Just giving you generic information on how I solve printer driver problems under Linux. I do not own your hardware so cannot verify the above…

[franky303]

@rrwwcs6

“Packaging Brother printer drivers”

Hey there,

sorry i’m late, i know … in case anybody else has got the same question:

YES, it does work for Manjaro. I’m on Manjaro myself and i am the person who added the .DEB instructions to the archwiki article you have mentioned.

The commands in the archwiki instructions are exactly what you’ll need to execute to make it work. You’ll need to register an AUR archlinux account first.

kind regards,

Frank