[PLUG] CUPS and Brother MFC-7820N

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Sat Nov 26 19:12:24 UTC 2016


Dick Steffens wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Ubuntu 14.04 machine to work correctly with my
> Brother MFC-7820N printer. CUPS finds the printer on the network. Using
> either of the two drivers CUPS can see -- BR-Script3 (en) or
> Foomatic/Postscript (en) --  I get the following printout:
>
> ERROR NAME;
>       configurationerror
> COMMAND;
>       setpagedevice
> OPERAND STACK;
>       --dicttype--
>
> I Googled that error message and found a number of sites that recommend
> not using either of the above mentioned drivers, but to run:
>
> sudo apt-get install brother-lpr-drivers-laser brother-cups-wrapper-laser
>
> which I did. However, when I try to add the printer I don't find that
> driver in the list. There is a CUPS option to Provide a PPD File, and a
> button to browse to the file. Nothing in the process I followed tells me
> where to find that PPD file. Am I looking for the right thing, or did I
> miss some other step?
>
> Thanks.
>
Dick,

You can get a list  of files in a package by issuing:
#>dpkg-query -L brother-lpr-drivers-laser

Regards,
Ken



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