How to add your Brother Printer in Linux
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025
- The process is the same for all brands. Go to the mfg website to download the linux drivers and follow along .
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Nine year old video still getting the job done. Thanks, man.
Awesome. The only reason this wasn't working for me at first was because I wasn't following your instructions to the t. Very professional and much appreciated.
Tried for two days. Couldn't get my printer working until I watched this. Thank you!
You're welcome :)
Brother provided instructions how to install their Linux Driver using Linux Terminal, but as is typical, there was enough confusion or lack of clarity for me to simply guess at what they were "saying". Since computers are so literal, the addition or omission of even a space between command elements would result in a fail. Your video was exactly what I needed. 5 years after you posted this video, the information is still relevant. Thank You.
Thank you for such clear step by step instructions. What a relief to find someone who can really bring it down to a level and pace that anyone can understand and follow. There seem to be so many knowledgeable Linux people out there who want to be helpful to beginners, but they just can't seem to communicate at a beginners level.. They start off with some kind welcoming words, but the next thing you know, they are off to the races spouting Linux lingo and commands without any clarification. I thought for sure I was going to have to go back to Windows since wasn't able to figure out what to do with the drivers once downloaded to Linux. Thanks to you, I was able to get my printer up and running in linux Lite and learned a little about using command prompts too.
Thanks for the kind words :) I'm glad it helped you. If you have any other questions that you can't find an answer to, feel free to send me a message. Good Luck!
i had never loaded a printer in linux before. i had a wireless Brother printer and thanks to this video i was able to install it. Thank you for making this video, it was clear and easy to follow.
Thank you Leon! And thanks for stopping by, glad it helped you :)
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. Lenny. I have just bought an HL-1112 printer and the driver base in Linux Mint didn't have the correct one.
I did as you suggested -- the Printers Directory was a brilliant idea, by the way -- and followed your instructions to a T. It took a little while until everything was finished and then a Test Page printed!
You are a terrific teacher -- liked and subscribed, with lots of thanks.
PL
Your video was a really big help in getting my Brother MFC-L2680 printer set-up to work with my newly installed Linux Feron OS. ....Thanks Lenny!
Thank you so much for the info. You are very thorough. Next time you can let them know to right click in the printer directory and select "open in terminal". Definitely easier for newer people. But very nicely done!!
Brilliant! I thought your presentation was a little too slow at first. But you are spot on, it's JUST RIGHT. Thanks.
You're welcome :)
Lenny
Thx too much for this video. I am trying to configure my Brother HL 1202, an hour ago. And your video help me to install once and for all. You explain very well, congrats. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ale
Thank you ... even 7 years later still a good tutorial.
Thank you very much ;Len that was a very splendid procedure. When I opened the file to extract I did not have the same set-up dialog box you have ,but I still managed to succeed. Your idea of a seperate folder also means that you could possibly transfer that fil eo whenever you install another distro,
keep up the good tutorials.
Saved my life... Managed to setup Brother MFC-L2700DW printer on Lubuntu 20.10 using this. Thanks so much
This is Brilliant! I have struggled before with Linux, but this guy makes it so easy and understandable. My new Brother MFC-j491DW worked first time, and scans as well. Top Marks Len
This is the best Step by Step video I have ever come across. I only wished I had more problems I need solving!!
Thanks Howard, your comments made my day :)
I am slowly working towards eliminating my windows/linux dual boot and eventually moving towards 100@ linux, and videos like this make it much easier to do. I am loving my mint install, but the few occasional linux quirks and difficulties are made much easier by step by step videos such as this.
Hi Lenny, I second Mad Harry.I had the same frustrating experience to looking for a tutorial a linux-beginner can understand.Following your detailed explanations even I was able to make my printer running.Thanks a lot and a "Happy New Year" to you.
+teutonicos Glad I could help! Thanks for stopping by the channel! Happy New Year to you and yours!
Wow it worked the first time. Wow thanks for the video. I had to redo the installation at the point of selecting the proper number which was 15, instead of the Device URI.
This was great. I am using Zorin 15 OS and I followed your instructions and everything loaded perfectly. My printer is a Brother HL-L2300D Keep up the good work!
Yes, that was VERY helpful! I really needed to see it done that way BEFORE I go to install a new printer when I get it so I don't scatter stuff everywhere like you said! I can learn some good ways of doing things in Linux from you, Thank you!
Excellent video as always Len. This video answers all the questions. Thank you very much.
A very good tutorial, congratulations, you know how to explain concisely and clearly. You are a very good teacher.
Thanks man!! I have been fighting with this printer for 3 days, you made it happen.
Glad it worked for you :)
It's works in 2021 too. Thanks man for the very clear explication
By the way, I wrote up all the instructions and located it in the new Printers Folder with all the rest of the files.
Thanks yet again!
PL
Thank you very so much for the your video how to install brother printer in Ubuntu you're such a good teacher....
Thanks for the excellent instructions! I followed your video as went thru the terminal commands to install my Brother HL-2270DW. I'm using mate 18.1 and entered the ip address in the choices menu (no auto config choice).
Glad it worked for you :)
5 failed to follow instructions 198 got saved including me. Thanks !
Great tutorial. Even I could understand what was going on. Lets now see what happens.
Lenn Thank you so much for doing a great video on installing the drivers for a { BROTHER} printer, Although I did have a bit of a puzzling time when I tried to change directory as linux said it didn't exist - where you changed the directory to downloads/Printer/ I think the extra {/} was needed at the end but never the less I got it to work.
Fantastic Video, however I recommend that when you show the terminal as you are typing - It would help to zoom in a bit more and or put the commands that you typed in the description as I found it a bit hard to see but other than that Great job.
Thanks again
Thank you, was able to add my brother all in one to Linux mint. I'm still unable to print, but can scan.
Cheers Lenny you have changed my printing life.
I'm glad it worked for you Franklin! Thanks for stopping by!
Even in 2020 it works. Thank You!
Thanks for the tutorial, worked great, saved me the headache,thanks again
Thank you for clearing it up, for it was extremely difficult to figure out
Awesome. Found you extremely helpful and accurate. Highly recommended
thank you so much!! this video was so clear and concise and solved my problem of how to install my brother mfc printer correctly!! thank you! :)
This saved me a lot of time. Thanks for making this available,
Thanks I was struggling new subscriber bro
Thank you very much ,I shall do exactly as you recommend,esp. the "printer " folder.I really appreciate your review because you enunciate ver clearly and succinctly. You must have the patience of Job.
We wish youand the family a Happy New Year and may the weather be kind.
God Bless,
From Down Under ,
Joe &Monika Barr
+JOSEPH BARR Thank you Joe and Monika, I'm glad that the videos have helped. That is my intention. I know how frustrating it can be venturing into something new, especially Linux. Glad I could help. In Australia it must be warm now. I saw on the news that you also have severe issues with wild fires. Hope you stay safe and Happy New Year!
Both of my printers (MFC J 475W & MFC J 430W) act dumb when I attempt a test page. Some how, somewhere I have apparently got something wrong or missed a step. Rather than watching & listening to the video while trying to do the process, a list of the steps I could print out and follow would be helpful.
Appreciated the instructional. Would the setup be the same through a wireless setup? Entered IP address of printer, it executed without errors, but no test page -> The device just shows "Processing" indefinitely. Cancelling the job and attempting to execute another to the same end ...
Thank you very very much man ! so easy following your instructions. you made it like piece of cake :)
+Wolf33 Thanks for the kind words. And thank you for stopping by the channel. I am glad I was able to help :)
Thanks you for such clear step by step instructions. !!!!!
Thanks from 2020 "March! It is still working...
Great Tutorial! Really helped with my Brother Scanner.
Thanks Lenny for your excellent video,I got my printer working.But what about the Scanner ?I guess I am not the only one with the problem,so,a video with instructions which also a layman could understand would be appreciated.Thanks again and kind regards.
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Printer works all fine but I still can't scan! I have Brother DCP-385C
found a solution yet?
Благодарю , год возился с установкой драйвера на brother hl-1112R сейчас он заработал , ура !!! Тысяча благодарностей тебе !!!
Wow, thank you !! IYour instruction is amazing, wonderful. Thanks !!! Greetings from Poland :)
Many thanks even though I made three tries getting past the Download file set-up. My Brother MFC-J285DW has scanner and this family needs for there school work. Hope that will be your next video. I couldn't print using linux and the Skype sound failed so I was ready to give up on Linux. Now I need to solve the sound on Skype and I will be a happy Linux user.
Glad it worked for you :)
Thanks a bunch man, I can use my printer now.
Thank you for your great informational video, Leonard!
Thanks for this video ... even today it's pretty usefull
Thanks a lot for your video it was very helpfull!!!
only helpful advice I could find thank you
my issue is it all goes well until near the end it says...cups service failed...check cups service. trying to run a brother mfc-j497dw with usb only and it still wants me to connect to https:631 an all that does is show a page not found..even the local host 127.0.0.1 is not found...odd thing is I changed over an HP laptop to Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa and the printer works but on my desktop running a full install of the same OS on a bootable USB the cups thing goes belly up. printer is never recognized but for some odd reason the Simple Scan function works....odd to say the least.
Thanks for the video. I got my printer to work. Thank you
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Thanks from 2019! it worked.
Can’t get it working on Kali unfortunately.
Did everything as suggested and got an error message, something about a “brmfc7825dwfilter” file missing…
Thank God the bushfires are over 1000 Km (600+ miles) My niece in Calif. said it was 40Deg.F on Monday ,here we had abt. 77Deg F.
+JOSEPH BARR We were 75 degrees F on Christmas day. Now it's cooler and wet. Normallt this time of year we get to 55deg F during the day, down in the 30's at night. Not too bad. Stay safe and have a great New Year Joseph!
Hi. I have MCF 5890NC. Printer already work, but scanner still not...
That's an MFP. So, the question is, does the *scanner work? Currently searching for printer/scanners (MFPs) to buy for my Linux, considering HP or Brother.
Thank you so much, i've never used gz before. I have the same series as you, does this also install the wireless printing as well?
TYVM, I got my brother hl-2270dw installed, I upgraded to linux mint 18 mate, after I was downgraded to windows 10 on main machine. i duel boot with two drives one w10 one mate 18 only use w10 now for MMO games
Thats great! Glad it worked for you. Thanks for stopping by Bruce!
Procedure worked for Ubuntu 18.04. However, printing options do not work. Although I choose grayscale, it prints as colorful or I choose the best quality it prints in the fast quality. Do you have any solution for this problem. Thanks
Thank you Joseph, glad you were successful. 😊
I'm a computer illiterate and switched to Linux to get away from Microsoft.
Your video helped me out so much. Thank you.
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You instructions are very clear and thorough. However, at the stage where I'm trying to run the installer file, I get the error message "cannot execute binary file." I can't progress past this point. Attempting to install a printer in Liinux has given me a new appreciation for Microsoft Windows. : (
The installation went wrong - I need you to do a video on how to remove and start over again with a reinstall
Can you kindly give help about scanner ? After following your instructions the printer works but the scanner does not.....
Thanks! Got it myself but then wanted to know if itś normal that it takes so much time and licence-agreements:-) i felt like being hacked as the installer went on in the terminal
I'm wondering if this process also installs the brother scanner drivers. Does anyone know about this?
Thanks for the great tutorial :)
You were a big help. Thank you.
+Canny Thank you Canny! And thanks for stopping by!
I am a total beginner and failed when it was not specified whether to use upper or lower cases or spaces in the Terminal, (also had to fine how to open a terminal through google). Never got any further then my terminal saying that there is no such file directory. not sure whether it is due to wrong spelling (the window of the terminal in RUclips tutorial is too small for me to read) or due to a missing something in my laptop.
May I help? Let's begin. The terminal may seem to be a very difficult tool to use, however once you learn how it is structured and a few commands, not to mention the power and speed of it, you will most likely come to love and prefer it over the GUI interface. You have learned step one, how to access it. Once opened you can start by typing some simple commands, ls (List the contents of the current directory), cat(Displays the content of a file to the standard out. 'Your monitor'), and cd (Change directory. Moves you to other directories up the tree). These are just a few of hundreds of commands used in bash (The name of the common shell that you are using). There are others available but stay here as bash is used on many Linux systems. Also note that bash is case sensitive and mostly uses lower case unless specified. Example: You should note that Directories are listed with the first letter of the name in Uppercase, Documents,Downloads and Music etc. In order for you to access them in the terminal you must type the name as it appears. So type (ls) to select a directory by typing (cd) + directory name + enter to view the contents of that directory. When finished type (cd) to return to your home directory. Also note hat for every command there is a man (Manual) page that describes every aspect of that command in detail. Example: Type (man) space (cd) to see the manual page for the cd command. Type q to quit the page. There are tons of videos that describe how to use the linux terminal and Joe Collins does an excellent job in a video call the bash shell I think. Hope this helps.
P.S. Lenny may also have one but I am not sure.
thanks for video i hope this does it and this is why can not get anyone to use linux its convoluted still
Your information has been very helpful and I was able to get the files needed. But I so have this problem: after opening a terminal and typing cd downloads/printer then enter, I get this responds: bash: cd: downloaders/printer: no such file or directory. I've downloaded the driver tools, mfcj480dwcupswrapper, mfcj480dwlpr, and linux brprinter installer. I'm wanting to use the printer with a usb port which is installed. Thank-you for all your help.
It sounds like you haven't created the /printer directory in your downloads folder. Or you arer spelling something wrong in your command that doesnt match what you created.
When I typed in the installer name -sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 HL-2280DW- and ran it I got an error:
"Restarting cups (via systemctl): cups.service.
lpinfo: cups-deviced failed to execute.
lpinfo: cups-deviced failed to execute.
lpinfo: cups-deviced failed to execute.
lpadmin: Bad device-uri scheme "usb"."
The printer is seen by computer and connected by usb.
I have done the same process but when I try to use any scan app such as VueScan it says that I don't have any printer installed on my Linux, btw, I'm using Kde Neon 5.16
Great tutorial, really helped me out, many thanks.
holy cow.. how long does this process run.. selecting .. preparing to unpack .. unpacking...? ( i guess when your machine is a dinosaur like mine it takes a few minutes)
Hi Lenny. I only just found you. I am totally new to Linux and your video help. The system i have max out 2GB RAM and windows 10 Pro 32 Bit ran like molasses. My printer is actually DocuPrint M225 dw which a forum said it same drivers as brother DCP-L2540DW and it prints fine.
My scanner / copy does not work. Can you do a video on how to do that? I didn't exactly follow the step you did so i restarted it and i went to somewhere and selected ( usb port maybe ) something and it worked and printed test page.
I don't know if this is the right area to directly contact you so i hope you can reply back soon. I really want to know how to use Linux to a level just so i van revive old systems and help people i live with to use Linux but i need to know first myself how to use.
i have lenovo flex 5 with ryzen 4500 u is threre any problem instaling it
Thanks Man, very good video. Simple for new on Linux. I have L. Mint and samsung M2020 and after many hours of try to find solution.....bum Call Lenny and problmes gone!
Thanks! This helped me a lot:)
+Andrew DiBernardo I'm glad it helped you, and thanks for stopping by Andrew!
Thanks a lot !!!!! You have helped me !!!!
I did it with my HL1202 and it didn't work out. The strange fact is that it prints few pages, but when I decide to print a file with, let's say, 25 pages starting for the even ones it doesn't function
Thank you very much for the clear!! and slow!! instructions. I had to learn how to find my IP address but this "Wilma" Flinstone is coming along.
Great Job! I'm sometimes criticized for talking too slow, but sometimes that's what it takes :-) Thanks for stopping by Wilma ;-)
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Can you help me with the scanner function?...same printer/scanner machine but I have never been able to scan to/from the Linux to the scanner?....
Sir, Make a video on epson and Canon printers also please
Any luck on making it work on RPI 3?
Hi Lenny
I had large trouble with installing my MFC-880DW under Linux Ubuntu 18.06 Your instructions had been helpful up to this point
enter Ip address I did it, next line is as follows:brsaneconfig4 - a name=MFC-J880DW model=MFC-J880DW ip=192.168.178.26
after having pressed enter I'm at the beginning....... @.....e6224-laptop:~/Downloads $ . Any idea what was wrong
Klaus from Germany
Hello I am writing from Italy, sorry for my English. I didn't create the folder PRINTERS during installation. Can I create it after installation and move on it all files created during intallation ?
No problem, you can create it after and just drag and drop the files in it.
Did you try doing this install again under Linux lite 3.0?
It seems that after I started using Linux Lite 3.0. I install the printer driver but I don't get all the options I used to have. For example, I can't change the toner saver mode and I can't print on both sides of the paper.
I did not try the install again. What distro were you using prior to LL3?
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LL2.8
hi teacher, how do i install printer in fedora 31
Great tutorial but my printer won't print after setting it up. Anyone know what would cause that?
how do a install the scanner functie of the brother
great tutor thank you works a dream