(UPDATED) HOWTO: Brother MFC scan and print with sane & cups

[Nadhor]

Thanks for the guide. I installed a HL-5250DN today with Cups-1.2.6 and udev-087-r1 (udev-103 had a little bit too many problems for my liking)
With your guide I managed to install the printer just fine and cups also recognized it, but as soon as I tried to print something it gave me the error-message: "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds". After a little searching I found that if the line

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DeviceURI usb://Brother/HL-5250DN%20series

gets changed to

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DeviceURI file:/dev/usb/lp0

in the file /etc/cups/printer.conf cups will finally print.
Thought I should mention it here, should anybody else run into the same trouble.

[kernelOfTruth]

thanks, Nadhor

this is what I forgot to add

everytime I newly install a printer I have to "modify" it under cups, since this happens rather seldom I didn't think of it, it will be added soon to my steps ...

it's also pretty strange that it sometimes works right out of the box & sometimes only with that modification ...

... but at least it works

[kernelOfTruth]

hi everyone,

watch out when updating your system:

cups 1.2.8 made some changes and isn't working for me, so if you encounter problems, switch back to 1.2.7

[dreamdreams]

hi everyone,

watch out when updating your system:

cups 1.2.8 made some changes and isn't working for me, so if you encounter problems, switch back to 1.2.7

1.2.8 works fine for me. Mine is a 7820N.

BTW, did anybody get the "Scan" button on the machine work with Linux? If yes then it would be perfect. I got print/scan working already. Didn't try PC fax yet, I bet it works. Will write a how-to after I try it today.

The only things left are:
1. PC Fax receive
2. Scan button on the machine

[VValdo]

I noticed that CUPS stopped working.. If i do

/etc/init.d/cupsd restart

as root it works again. I'm trying to figure out why...

W

[PiRmD]

I'm trying to have my new DCP-750CW work. I have followed VValdo guidelines but I still have the following trouble :
- when I launch any printing job, the printer "wakes-up" but nothing is printed
- Cups seems to consider that the job is finished successfully (the job is deleted from the queue, moreover the log in debug mode states that the job is terminated with success)
- the only strange think found in cups log is the following error

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"cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!"

(but according to google and as far as I have understood it should not be linked to my issue)
- another strange thinks is that the files in /var/spool/cups (which I think are related to the file to be printed) belong to root:lp with permission 600 (and are filling up this directory)

The printer is connected through ethernet if it can be the root of the issue.

[kernelOfTruth]

I'm trying to have my new DCP-750CW work. I have followed VValdo guidelines but I still have the following trouble :
- when I launch any printing job, the printer "wakes-up" but nothing is printed
- Cups seems to consider that the job is finished successfully (the job is deleted from the queue, moreover the log in debug mode states that the job is terminated with success)
- the only strange think found in cups log is the following error

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"cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!"

(but according to google and as far as I have understood it should not be linked to my issue)
- another strange thinks is that the files in /var/spool/cups (which I think are related to the file to be printed) belong to root:lp with permission 600 (and are filling up this directory)

The printer is connected through ethernet if it can be the root of the issue.

which platform are you using, if I may ask: x86 or amd64?

if you're using amd64, have you copied over files to /usr/libexec/... (if using cups 1.2*), have you installed the files manually or used rpm?

sorry, I'm a bit lazy & busy right now & in addition to that I don't know anymore what VValdo's steps were ... will have a look at them later ...

[PiRmD]

I'm running x86 platform.
I did use the rpm packages (first to install lpr drivers then the cups wrapper)
I copy the files from /usr/lib/cups/filter to /usr/libexec/cups/filter (in fact I've created a symlink from /usr/lib/cups/filter to its new cups 1.2* location before I installed the rpm).

[kernelOfTruth]

I'm getting an error like the following right now on amd64, running 2.6.21-r7-git5:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=244397

I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 34 types, 38 filters...
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Full reload complete.
E [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Unable to find IP address for server name "lexa-x86"!
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 2...
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 3...
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:05 +0200] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 4...
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:15 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:15 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=10862)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:15 +0200] commptr="1+0+4+requested-attributes=all"
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:15 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/daemon/cups-deviced" (pid=10863)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:17 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:17 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10875)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:20 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:20 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10876)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] commptr="?op=print-test-page"
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10877)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Adding start banner page "none" to job 6.
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Adding end banner page "none" to job 6.
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Job 6 queued on "MFC5840CN" by "guest".
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 10878) for job 6.
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperMFC5840CN (PID 10879) for job 6.
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 10880) for job 6.
E [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] PID 10879 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperMFC5840CN) stopped with status 22!
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:30 +0200] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:32 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:32 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10881)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:42 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:42 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10882)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:52 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:32:52 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10883)
I [22/Apr/2007:22:33:02 +0200] commptr=""
I [22/Apr/2007:22:33:02 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=10884)

any help appreciated

[netboy1977]

Dear Forum,

I can't get my Brother MFC-425CN scanner working via network.
Printing via network is fine using CUPS.

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 brsaneconfig2 -q 

says that the scanner s found:

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Devices on network
  0 MFC-425CN           "MFC-425CN"         I:192.168.178.2

Nevertheless xsane does not find any scanner.
Who can help me?
Thanks!
Dominik

[kernelOfTruth]

Dear Forum,

I can't get my Brother MFC-425CN scanner working via network.
Printing via network is fine using CUPS.

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 brsaneconfig2 -q 

says that the scanner s found:

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Devices on network
  0 MFC-425CN           "MFC-425CN"         I:192.168.178.2

Nevertheless xsane does not find any scanner.
Who can help me?
Thanks!
Dominik

did xsane work with the root account?

did you follow the gentoo wiki or did you configure it on your own? (http://gentoo-wiki.com/Brother_MFC_420CN/Sane)


I'm having problems setting up my printer (MFC5840CN) up on another system (via usb): I'm getting the infamous: "Unable to copy ppd" message, like on ubuntu-forums described:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232276

unfortunately the tips don't help, on one case the printer says "Incoming Data" (or similar; translated message), the other cups says /usr/libexec/cups/filter/brldwrapper... failed (the exact version / name of that file doesn't play a role)

did anyone encounter the same behavior & can help me? cups error log says: 'exited with error message 30' or similar, which means that lpr driver isn't installed (read this somewhere), which in fact isn't true since I copied / installed that before cupswrapper

Many thanks in advance

[PiRmD]

I don't know if it can help but I had to modify the permission of the brother filter in order to get rid of such complain (to have it executable by world such like the other filters).I did have to do the same for the brother ppd file in /usr/share/cups/model.

EDIT : thanks to your question, I go through most of eth files installed by Brother and I discover some other permission issues (like access to /usr/local/Brother/printer and Scanner). I change them and it fixes all my scanning and printing issues !

Thus I'm still not clear of what should be the right owner and permission setting for such files. Should it be root:root with a world r--x or root:lp with no permission for world ...

[kernelOfTruth]

I don't know if it can help but I had to modify the permission of the brother filter in order to get rid of such complain (to have it executable by world such like the other filters).I did have to do the same for the brother ppd file in /usr/share/cups/model.

EDIT : thanks to your question, I go through most of eth files installed by Brother and I discover some other permission issues (like access to /usr/local/Brother/printer and Scanner). I change them and it fixes all my scanning and printing issues !

Thus I'm still not clear of what should be the right owner and permission setting for such files. Should it be root:root with a world r--x or root:lp with no permission for world ...

thanks PiRmD

you pointed me in the right direction

ok ladies & gentlemen here are the exact permissions for the files (names may vary) how I got this pita working [thanks god I had a working system image somewhere]:

/usr/bin

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     22628 Mar 19 07:25 brprintconfij2

/usr/lib

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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       21 May  7 10:56 libbrcompij2.so.1 -> libbrcompij2.so.1.0.2

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   725444 Mar 19 07:25 libbrcompij2.so.1.0.2

/usr/local/Brother

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drwxr-xr-x  6 root root                6 Mar 19 07:26 Brother

/usr/local/Brother/

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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4 Mar 19 07:26 cupswrapper

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  2 Mar 19 07:26 filter

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 12 May  3 06:56 inf

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  5 Mar 19 07:25 lpd

/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 103199 Mar 19 07:26 cupswrapperMFC5840CN-1.0.0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103196 Mar 19 07:25 cupswrapperMFC5840CN-1.0.0~

/usr/local/Brother/inf

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1468 Mar 19 07:25 brMFC5840CNfunc

-rw------- 1 lp   lp      314 May  3 06:56 brMFC5840CNrc

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 May  7 10:56 brPrintList -> brMFC5840CNrc

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    148 Mar 19 07:25 brPrintListij2

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127728 Mar 19 07:25 brio04aa.bcm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220536 Mar 19 07:25 brio04ab.bcm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127728 Mar 19 07:25 brio04ac.bcm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132440 Mar 19 07:25 brio04ad.bcm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    492 Mar 19 07:25 paperinfij2

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1620 Mar 19 07:25 setupPrintcapij

/usr/local/Brother/lpd

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1956 Mar 19 07:25 filterMFC5840CN

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1884 Mar 19 07:25 psconvertij2

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24656 Mar 19 07:25 rastertobrij2

/usr/libexec/cups/filter/

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18240 Mar 19 07:26 brlpdwrapperMFC5840CN

[netboy1977]

thanks PiRmD

you pointed me in the right direction

ok ladies & gentlemen here are the exact permissions for the files (names may vary) how I got this pita working [thanks god I had a working system image somewhere]:

Seems to me I have a different problem since permissions are set in the right way (Thanks for your input kernelOfTruth). All the relevant files are world readable. Are you sure root is the right owner?

[monsieur]

thank you very much for this excellent guide.

I have a MFC 9160 --> color scanner and b&w printer working nicely (for normal user also) with cups and xsane.

I just copy-pasted your commands ( ) and it worked perfectly. Fixed the whole thing in around 10 minutes

[kernelOfTruth]

thanks PiRmD

you pointed me in the right direction

ok ladies & gentlemen here are the exact permissions for the files (names may vary) how I got this pita working [thanks god I had a working system image somewhere]:

Seems to me I have a different problem since permissions are set in the right way (Thanks for your input kernelOfTruth). All the relevant files are world readable. Are you sure root is the right owner?

sorry for this long delay

I'm pretty sure that it should be root, but you could rpm2targz your rpm-files, then check out what permissions they have inside those rpms

you could also try out to set them to root:users, but leave the file(s) with lp:lp

@monsieur:

glad it helped you

[RiBBiT]

Thanks for the instructions kernelOfTruth, I got my HL-2030 up and running fine.

[timor]

I'm trying to have my new DCP-750CW work. I have followed VValdo guidelines but I still have the following trouble :
- when I launch any printing job, the printer "wakes-up" but nothing is printed
- Cups seems to consider that the job is finished successfully (the job is deleted from the queue, moreover the log in debug mode states that the job is terminated with success)
- the only strange think found in cups log is the following error

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"cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!"

(but according to google and as far as I have understood it should not be linked to my issue)
- another strange thinks is that the files in /var/spool/cups (which I think are related to the file to be printed) belong to root:lp with permission 600 (and are filling up this directory)

The printer is connected through ethernet if it can be the root of the issue.

I have new DCP-130C and stuck after all installation steps ;/ My problems are similar to this above.

I've tried cups versions: 1.1.23-r8 1.2.9 1.2.10-r1 - none working,
I've tried usb://Brother/DCP-130C and file:/dev/usb/lp0 uri's
Permissions are set r+w for all files

No errors in error_log

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I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:33 +0200] commptr=""
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:33 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=12509)
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] commptr="?op=print-test-page"
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=12512)
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] Adding start banner page "none" to job 36.
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] Adding end banner page "none" to job 36.
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] Job 36 queued on "brother" by "root".
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 12513) for job 36.
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperdcp130c (PID 12514) for job 36.
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:41 +0200] commptr=""
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:41 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=12515)
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:44 +0200] commptr="?which_jobs=all"
I [28/Sep/2007:11:28:44 +0200] Started "/usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=12516)

[kernelOfTruth]

first try to get it to print locally (usb, parallel port), then connect it to ethernet

the main thing is:

try to get right permissions on all files #4044097

that was the most often problem I always had

good luck

[fbcyborg]

Hello!

I've just installed my Brother DCP-7010L A4 scanner. It works very fine with brother2 backend, but, starting xsane I see something strange.
Here's the main xsane screenshot.
As you can see in the red circle, dimensions are 21.59 cm x 35.56 cm.
My scanner is an A4 scanner, so it would be better if dimentions are 21.00 cm x 29.7 cm.
Scanned images take less then an A4 sheet actually. Expecially in PDF files.

How can I modify that values?

Thanks a lot.

[kernelOfTruth]

in the preview window instead of "full size" select "DIN A4 port." or other as needed

[fbcyborg]

Thanks a lot!
It works!

[dracozny]

ok, thanks

well, that's ok, I would stick to 1.1.23, since last time I tried out 1.2* and reverted to 1.1.23 it didn't work anymore

Update:

I solved the problem thanks to VValdo's post:

just copy /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapper* to /usr/libexec/cups/filter/brlpdwrapper*
and the printer should also work with cups-1.2*

hmm no f/usr/lib/cups doesn't exist in my setup.

using latest version of cups as well, so far I have everything running except the printer system sends data to printer which is recieved but printer discards, and cups reports success. oh and also no lpd in /etc/init.d not sure what has to be emerged there i tried search and just get selinux library.

correction after logging out and back in I no longer can scan, running xsane from terminal i get

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xsane
bugchk_free(ptr=(nil))@brother_modelinf.c(467)
Aborted

[kernelOfTruth]

try scanning via root -

I know - I know you shouldn't do things with root,

but that's the only temporary solution - at least for me

try - it - out

[GSValore]

I'm trying to get my MFC-240C to work, but all the suggestions thus far do not seem to help. CUPS recognizes the printer on the USB port; however, it does not seem to actually print anything. Any jobs sit as processing endlessly. The error log shows nothing.

My system is configured as amd64, and I've installed the driver and cupswrapper as per Brother's site's instructions.