I ended up downloading the 'Driver Install Tool' available on the Brother website for this printer (hl-2270DW) and followed the instruction to run the script, it automatically pulls in the needed package and installs  the printer.

Driver install Tool is available here:

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa … all&os=128

Brother has a prerequisite explained here:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/faqend. … 100548_000

This means you need to install one of the mentioned packages prior to installing the .deb for your printer.

Drivers can be found here;
https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa … all&os=128

As I also have a Brother machine (MFC in my case) I d/l'ed the instructions years ago, as well as the drivers for my device, and in there I found to use the force option for dpkg:

dpkg  -i  --force-all <driver-name>.deb

HTH!

I'm assuming you've already tried using CUPs with the available drivers provided there?

In my case I use the driver for a slightly different Brother model: I have a DCP 9015CDW and use the DCP 9010CDW dirver which works fine, including duplex.

A cursory search finds there's a discussion of drivers to use for your model here: http://openprinting.org/printer/Brother … -HL-2270DW.

the provided link is empty.

Try to enable multiarch support: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Imple … _multiarch

tried this, still having error:

root@t60:/home/erdos/Downloads# dpkg -i hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package hl2270dwlpr:i386.
(Reading database ... 75692 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb ...
Unpacking hl2270dwlpr:i386 (2.1.0-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hl2270dwlpr:i386:
 hl2270dwlpr:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1).

dpkg: error processing package hl2270dwlpr:i386 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hl2270dwlpr:i386
[1]+  Done                    synaptic

i installed mentioned missing libc6 for i386, still got the same error

In my case I use the driver for a slightly different Brother model: I have a DCP 9015CDW and use the DCP 9010CDW dirver which works fine, including duplex.

A cursory search finds there's a discussion of drivers to use for your model here: http://openprinting.org/printer/Brother … -HL-2270DW.

erdos@t60:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb
[sudo] password for erdos: 
dpkg: error processing archive hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb (--install):
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb

any suggestion how to resolve this?