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Micronaut

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Registered: 2019-07-04

Posts: 245  

How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS?

My printers are all ancient and suffering various problems. Rather than continue to struggle to keep them running, I am thinking of buying a newer printer. The one I favor, the Brother HL-L2400D is especially appealing for NOT having fancy networking options that just make it hackable. Wifi printers??? No. Just no.

But on researching it, one of the things I have learned is that there is no MacOS driver for this printer. That normally wouldn't be a concern since I don't own Apple hardware, except I thought Apple used the CUPS system like all other *nix based OSes? Do they? How would I check if there is a CUPS driver for this printer before buying one and plugging it into a computer running some flavor of Linux? I would hope there is a reference somewhere that can be checked?

Dutch_Master

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Registered: 2018-05-31

Posts: 301  

Re: How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS?

Here's the Brother support site:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/product … content=dl

Select your region, model, follow instructions and you should be able to get a download link to the installer. That's just a script selecting the correct drivers for your device and installing them.

FIY: my last 3 printers (actually MFC units) were all Brother products due to their excellent Linux support. Current machine: MFC-J5740DW (no WiFi configured, so no access from outside )

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

Posts: 335  

Re: How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS?

Brother HL-L3280CDW here

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,277  

Re: How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS?

I am using a Kyocera P6230 LAN printer with a PPD supplied by Kyocera. Before that I owned a FS-5100DN.

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 195  

Re: How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS?

Brother_MFC_J5340DW working perfectly well here.
No drivers installed at all.
Devuan5 (Daedalus) with CUPS and IPP

implicitclass://Brother_MFC_J5340DW/
Brother MFC-J5340DW, driverless, cups-filters 1.28.17

Just connect the printer to the local network, set it up, and off you go.
Chances are that your chosen model will work that way.

pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

Posts: 243  

Re: How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS?

Choose a printer that is AirPrint-compatible, and no driver installation will even be necessary.

See:

Driverless printing
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7339

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