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- #Printopia says waiting for printer to become available pdf#
- #Printopia says waiting for printer to become available install#
- #Printopia says waiting for printer to become available drivers#
The procedure should work for any of the Brother models that use the brscan2 driver.NOTE: This guide is for Printopia 3, the new version of Printopia released on October 13, 2017.įor help with the old version, see the Printopia 2 Troubleshooting Guide. * Run Simple Scan from the Graphics menu to test the scanner. (-p preserves permissions, -r recurses into subfolders)
#Printopia says waiting for printer to become available install#
* Download and install the scanner driver (brscan2) and scan-key-tool packages from Brother's site. That says "# The following rule will disable"ĪTTRS="yes" Put them at the end of the list of vendors, just before the line * As advised in Brother's instructions, add the following lines to * Make sure the package 'sane-utils' is installed (eg, use Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). 'Select Printer from Database', then Brother, 'Waiting for printer to become available') (for me, with Linux Mint 18, this entry wouldn't work: Remove the MFC7420 entry added by Brother script Sudo cp -pr /usr/lib64/lib* /usr/lib64/sane /usr/lib Sudo cp /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapper* /usr/lib64/cups/filter Sudo mkdir /usr/lib64/cups /usr/lib64/cups/filter /usr/lib32 * (If your system is 64-bit) As advised in Brother's instructions, copy the libraries to the correct location for the 64-bit system: I downloaded them and installed them with dkpg instead:Ĭd ~/lib/software (or wherever you put them) Gdebi would not install these drivers, complaining of wrong architecture, but they do work. They are 32-bit packages and my system is 64-bit. * Install the lpr driver and cupswrapper driver Debian packages from Brother's site. Brother provide a script to do this and install the packages but I recommend you download the packages manually and install them as explained below.
#Printopia says waiting for printer to become available drivers#
Get the printer and scanner drivers for the MFC-7420 from Brother's siteįollow the prompts to find the latest correct Linux 'deb' (Debian) packages. The Brother printer drivers are 32-bit so if you have a 64-bit system, make sure the 32-bit libraries are installed, by installing the 'ia32-libs' package (eg, use Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). (Linux Mint 18.1 Serena, Cinnamon edition, 64-bit) To fix this I had to manually delete the printer queue added by Brother's script and create my own. If I rebooted or restarted CUPS ('sudo service cups restart') with the printer attached and powered on, CUPS would configure a new entry for the printer using an incorrect driver. If I tried to print from the command line, eg 'lp -PMFC7420 file.txt', there would be a notification that the file was being printed, but nothing would print.ģ.
#Printopia says waiting for printer to become available pdf#
When I tried to use the printer from an application (eg, print a PDF using xviewer) the dialog box showed 'Waiting for printer to become available'.Ģ. The drivers install okay but as of Linux Mint 18, the printer queue setup is not done correctly. Brother provides Debian packages that install the drivers and (supposedly) set up a printer queue in CUPS. You have to download them from Brother's site. Linux Mint does not come with drivers for this printer. I have not tried using it to fax documents from the computer. However, I'm leaving the setup instructions here in case someone needs them. Update : I no longer have this printer, so I can't test it with Linux Mint 20.