2022 update: due to evolving colord conflicts with CUPS color-setting, it's best to follow the instructions in my most recent post on this install. There's plenty of relevant older info below, but it probably depends on one's time and inclination whether to move onto the other post or start below.
Typical printing links and commands:
- http://localhost:631 CUPS admin page
- # lpadmin -x Brother remove a printer by its installed name, eg. "Brother"
- $ lpinfo -v get info on all connected printers
- # lpstat -o list all print jobs
- # cancel -a cancel all print jobs
- # systemctl [enable/disable/start/stop/restart] cups.service
- /var/log/cups/error_log CUPS error logs
The printers are priced $90 clearance (c. 2020) or sometimes $70 refurbished. Refurbished with 2-year warranty is best. Eg, "refurbished" from Wal-Mart ($70), with an Allstate 2 year plan ($6), costs less than a new model ($90) yet with deeper protections, such as free shipping for repairs.
Links: Openprinting.org database :: Brother L2315DW downloads page
solution
Go to the Brother L2315DW downloads page and select Linux -> RPM's. Note in the screenshot below that, even though they have three available downloads, both the PPD and LPD are contained in the single 0.2MB PPD download circled in red. The file is hll2315dwcupswrapper-3.2.1-1.i386.rpm.
Use xarchiver to open the RPM and extract its single folder, "opt" Inside opt, I continued drilling down into its subdirectories. I located both necessary files in /opt/brother/Printers/HLL2315DW/cupswrapper/. The CUPS PPD is named brother-HLL2315DW-cups-en.ppd, feel free to rename to [whatever].ppd. As for the LPD, it must retain its name, and you might want to save it (its a Perl script), but you could also just create the file, since its contents are just a single line (see further down).
owner and permission
Ownership will automatically become root b/c these can't be copied into their directories as user -- when you 'su'-up to copy them, they'll move over as owned by root. I have a working system with 755 on the filter but the instructions say it should 751.
- CUPS (PPD) 755 $ chmod 755 file
- LPD text file 751 $ chmod 751 file
locations
- CUPS (PPD) /usr/share/cups/model/foo.ppd
- LPD file /usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_HLL2315DW
LPD file
The ONLY way I could get to print was to use default options, which meant creating a custom brother_lpdwrapper_HLL2315DW file. Duplex printing -- an option physically available on the printer -- might be possible from some printer setting, but it cannot be accomplished in the CUPS software without errors that prevent printing altogether. Let the printer report its defaults to CUPS for successful printing. The file which makes CUPS adopt printer defaults is a single shebang line, with no line breaks (it is multiple line below due to column width word-wrapping). Don't forget permissions must be 751.#! /opt/brother/Printers/HLL2315DW/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_HLL2315DW
PPD file
The PPD part is like years prior.- assigned read/execute (5) permissions that have worked with prior PPD's... $ chmod 755 printer.ppd
- copied it to the Arch PPD directory... # cp printer.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/printer.ppd
- verify the USB-attached printer is detected $lsusb
- verify CUPS is running... # systemctl
- install the printer # lpadmin -p Brother -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m printer.ppd
- alternatively, if having problems, you can use the bus ID's in lsusb and be more specific about the PPD locations as well (all one line):
lpadmin -p Brother -E -v usb:/dev/bus/usb/lp0 -m printer.ppd
- check it in CUPS http://localhost:631, and verify or assign it default printer
- still in CUPS, verify the printer is awaiting print jobs and not paused
- print a test page
- copy the PPD to one's installation USB key so they needn't download it again for an OS/CUPS re-install
wifi install
Not worth it for a home-use stand-alone printer. It's too flaky. Eg, the next power outage, the WiFi router assigns the printer with a new DHCP address and one has to install the printer again.somewhat common filter problem
There's a fail where the filter does not print over to the /opt directory.
$ ls/opt/brother/Printers': No such file or directory
The error log looks like this:
cat /var/log/cups/error_log W [14/Dec/2022:22:24:51 -0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-Gray..\' already exists
What has happened? The printer driver PPD attempted to create a settings file in /opt/brother/Printers/[model], but part of the PPD attempt included setting printer colors. The desktop ColorManager (ICC files) settings from free desktop (files are in /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces) conflict with the PPD color. Due to the conflict, CUPS aborts creation of the printer configuration file in /opt and then fails to print based on lack of that filter.
These color manager related failures are based on colord ICC profiles for each device and are complex.
colormgr is the command line device for changing colord ICC files.
additional
There's been changes in CUPS, such as requiring the LPR translation file, and PPD's may disappear entirely at some point.- cannot select Duplex and have it print. If I could, I'd want "DuplexNoTumble". Duplex with tumble inverts the top and bottom of the front/back of a page like for clipboard use. However, the printer only works in single page mode.
- after installation, it's efficient to set it as the default printer in case one has an application that sends to an LPR default, not to a printer name (eg. geeqie).
- Some failures require a CUPS restart...
# systemctl restart cups.service
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