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Install a brother dcp135c printer

Asked by dioron

hi, i have downloaded and innstalled the lpr and cupswrapper from brother themselves but still can't use my printer please help don't want to have to go back to windows........

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Best Federico Vera (fedevera) said : 		#1

Hi! How are you connecting the printer? locally or remotely? Because LPR is a network printer protocol. In any case you'll need to install the CUPS driver, seeing as this manages network protocols as well.

Acording to the Ubuntu-Brother wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging), for that printer you need to install the following package 'brother-cups-wrapper-extra'. In order to do this, you could go to "System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager" and search for the package, or just open a terminal "Applications->accessories->Terminal" and type in:

sudo apt-get install brother-cups-wrapper-extra

After this operation takes place, you'll might need to restart CUPS, you can accomplish this by restarting the computer, or typing the following in a terminal:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

After this, the driver should be available from "System->Administration->Printers"

hope it helps!

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dioron (ian-cooper40) said : 		#2

Thanks that worked fine,
anywhere i can get some books on linux as i'm a real newbie and would like to learn.

what am i looking for as a beginer,

thanks again

Ian.