Support #470: Adding Brother 7820N Printing Support on Arch - GNU/Linux Administration - ALT Project Management

Support #470

Adding Brother 7820N Printing Support on Arch

Added by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Daniel Curtis

Category:

Printers

Target version:

Arch Linux

Start date:

10/09/2014

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

0.50 h

Spent time:

1.00 h

Description

This guide will help setup print support for Brother 7820N multi-function printer support on Arch Linux. This guide assumes yaourt or a similar AUR package handler is installed.

Install CUPS:
```
sudo pacman -S cups a2ps
```

Install yaourt

Install the brother-cups-wrapper-laser package from the AUR:
```
yaourt brother-cups-wrapper-laser
```

Now configure a printer:
```
system-config-printer
```

Start and enable the cups service at boot:

sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service
sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service

(Optional) Start the printer discovery service:
```
sudo systemctl start cups-browsed.service
```

Next open a web browser and go to http://localhost:631 and add the printer from the Administration section.
1. NOTE: By default, only root will be allowed to add new printers.
2. NOTE: For remote CUPS print servers, administering over an SSH tunnel is helpful:
```
ssh -L 6310:localhost:631 cups.example.com
```