Brother DCP L2529DW

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ilikesteel
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Brother DCP L2529DW

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having a hard time finding a simple way to install a driver for this printer. if I use cups, it has many Brother printers, but not this one. This printer is on a wireless network. would I have a better chance of connecting it to the Macbook that has 18.3, hoping mint will recognize it and offer a driver? the printer is fairly new and I thought the software would have had this driver. any help would be appreciated. I also went to the Brother site and found drivers but unsure of which one to use. I tried downloading one, but after it downloaded I wasn't sure what to do with it. I'm not too familiar with linux yet and definitely not too comfortable using the terminal window and linux commands.

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Re: Brother DCP L2529DW

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Brother offer an install tool; that should do things for you; so if you go here http://support.brother.com/g/b/download ... &type3=625 and click to SAVE on the Download button, it should ...... end up in your Downloads folder

so if you open a terminal: the black TV on the bottom tool bar .................... and paste each command below in line by line ....... control and shift and v are the three keys that paste into the terminal ...... and hit the ENTER key after each paste ..

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cd Downloads

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gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.0-1.gz

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sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.0-1 DCP-L2529DW
........ watch the terminal as the install runs; at some point it will ask if you want to specify the Device URI: if wireless, say yes and choose what seems the best option .......

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when the next version of Mint arrives ..... July 2018?? .......... many of these DCP Brother printers will auto-configure as they are airprint-compatible; and Ubuntu introduced that with 17.04 .... but this 2529 is not on the list; the 2520 is ...........
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Re: Brother DCP L2529DW

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pdc_2,

thanks for the info. I mistakenly typed the model incorrectly (fat fingers) is should have read L2520, not L2529. I will try it, much appreciated.

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Re: Brother DCP L2529DW

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well best put the correct model number in the script ........... but the script will likely go
Ugh?
if you keep it at 2529
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