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  1. 03-21-2009 #1
    karrissaan
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    Connecting Printer in Ubuntu

    Hi all,

    After deciding to clean the trojans and worms off my hard drive, i formatted it and installed ubuntu, although i intend to install windows later, i would not install it at all if i could get my printer working. It is a Brother MFC 465-CN, but the option to add new printers under System>Administration>Printing does not have a driver for my printer. I have all the original discs, and am not too great with linux, so please keep things as simple as possible.

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    Welcome to the forums!

    According to OpenPrinting.org, you printer works "mostly" under Linux. Check this page for some information that might help you to get it going:

    OpenPrinting database - Printer: Brother MFC-465-cn
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    On the brother support site there are drivers for Printing (lpr & cups), Fax (lpr & cups) and scanning. Assuming your connecting via USB. I have one of the and it works perfectly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blinky View Post
    On the brother support site there are drivers for Printing (lpr & cups), Fax (lpr & cups) and scanning. Assuming your connecting via USB. I have one of the and it works perfectly.
    Sorry, but the printer is connected over a wireless network.
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    Okay, how is the printer being served? What's the OS on the server (if connected that way)?

    If Windows: Win2K + has the option of "Unix Print Services" driver, which is more or less a pdf print driver with printer redirection (print to file or existing print driver). With that shared, you can set up a linux client to point to it as a generic postscript printer, and have it redirect to your brother.
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    [QUOTE=karrissaan;679605]Sorry, but the printer is connected over a wireless network.[/QUOTE

    Have used the print part via the network (was playing/testing it), that works as well (AppSocect/HP jet Direct). The faxing and scanning are supposed to work as well but have not tried them (there is a network scan/fax driver - like I said never tried it myself), I think you have to run a binary on the client side.
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