SOLVED Brother 2300D / USB / Mint 20.3

[jejaffe]

Mint 20.3 Cinnamon w/2300D printer connected via USB
ippusbxd is not installed

support.brother.com shows me

1 driver install tool 8/19/2021

4 printer drivers
LPR printer driver 4/2/2015
CUPSwrapper driver 4/2/2015

Generic LPR printer driver 6/20/2014
Generic CUPSwrapper driver 6/20/2014

Downloaded them all to home/USERName/Downloads
: home/USERName/Downloads > gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz
: home/USERName/Downloads > sudo su
terminal prompt changed to root@<Machinename>

then
: home/USERName/Downloads > chmod a+rx ./linux-brprinter-installer*
: home/USERName/Downloads > sudo ./linux-brprinter-installer*

"Driver-packages cannot be found.
Confirm the model name."

So much for the "First Pass" (see below)

A Brother page suggested using bash this way
: home/USERName/Downloads > bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* Brother2300D

"Driver-packages cannot be found.
Confirm the model name."

maybe they wanted the file name so I tried

: home/USERName/Downloads > bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* hll2300dlpr-3.2.0-1.386

"Driver-packages cannot be found.
Confirm the model name."

Either I'm a complete idiot (I could be) or this is not as simple as presented below.

= = first try
https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedoc ... nters.html
which says

Brother provides a utility to download and install the right driver for you.
Download the utility, choose deb when asked.
Decompress it, give it permission to execute and run it in a terminal:

chmod a+rx ./linux-brprinter-installer*
sudo ./linux-brprinter-installer*

After too many hours over too many weeks I confess, I need some help.

[JerryF]

Click on the following link to download the Driver Install Tool:

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa ... &type3=625

The tool will be downloaded into the default "Downloads" directory.

Open a Terminal window.

Go to the directory where you downloaded the file in the previous step by running this command:

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cd ~/Downloads

Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:

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gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz

Get superuser authorization by running this command:

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sudo su

The password it asks for is your password for your account in Mint.

Run the Driver Install Tool by using this command:

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bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1 HL-L2300D

The driver installation will start. Follow the installation screen directions. The responses to the questions should be "Y".

When you see the message "Will you specify the Device URI ?"

Choose N (No) for USB.

The install process may take some time. Please wait until it has completed.

It will ask you to do a Test Print. Select "Y".

To exit the Terminal from superuser, type:

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exit

Then close the Terminal window.

[AndyMH]

Or you can download the deb files for the printer driver and cupswrapper and install manually. That's what I do. Double click on the deb file in your file manager to install. Install the driver first and then the cupswrapper.

[stringfellow]

I had this printer and it was not straightforward getting it to work well in 19.3 This is what I did if it helps. Will probably work in 20.3 too.

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=322183

[jejaffe]

Click on the following link to download the Driver Install Tool:

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa ... &type3=625

The tool will be downloaded into the default "Downloads" directory.

Open a Terminal window.

Go to the directory where you downloaded the file in the previous step by running this command:

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cd ~/Downloads

Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:

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gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-*.gz

Get superuser authorization by running this command:

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sudo su

The password it asks for is your password for your account in Mint.

Run the Driver Install Tool by using this command:

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bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1 HL-L2300D

The driver installation will start. Follow the installation screen directions. The responses to the questions should be "Y".

When you see the message "Will you specify the Device URI ?"

Choose N (No) for USB.

The install process may take some time. Please wait until it has completed.

It will ask you to do a Test Print. Select "Y".

To exit the Terminal from superuser, type:

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exit

Then close the Terminal window.

= = =
dang! Made it all the way to the test print.

Will you specify the Device URI? [Y/n] ->n
Test Print? [y/N] ->y

wait 5s.
lpr -P HLL2300D /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules': No such file or directory


a) Thanks

b) How did you know the "name" was "HL-L2300D"
>bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1 HL-L2300D

c) any idea what to try next?

[jejaffe]

Or you can download the deb files for the printer driver and cupswrapper and install manually. That's what I do. Double click on the deb file in your file manager to install. Install the driver first and then the cupswrapper.

That is what I did first and it didn't work.

[JerryF]

= = =
dang! Made it all the way to the test print.

Will you specify the Device URI? [Y/n] ->n
Test Print? [y/N] ->y

wait 5s.
lpr -P HLL2300D /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules': No such file or directory


a) Thanks

b) How did you know the "name" was "HL-L2300D"
>bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1 HL-L2300D

c) any idea what to try next?

b) From the Brother website. It's the model name.

c) Try everything again but without the hyphen in the model name.

[jejaffe]

c) Try everything again but without the hyphen in the model name.

That ran without error.The test page didn't print.

d) I needed to laser print something and connected the 2300D to another computer.
Reconnected USB to Linux and printed from a program. (where is the embarrassed icon?)

SOLVED! Thanks!

[JerryF]

... (where is the embarrassed icon?)

SOLVED! Thanks!

Right here



Glad it's working.