Package Details: brother-hl2170w 2.0.2-3

Package Base: brother-hl2170w
Description: Brother HL-2170W CUPS printer driver
Upstream URL: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html
Category: system
Licenses: custom:Brother GPL
Submitter: xia0er
Maintainer: xia0er
Last Packager: None
Votes: 3
First Submitted: 2009-07-25 06:49
Last Updated: 2010-10-21 00:05

Latest Comments

Anonymous comment

2012-02-05 20:31

Before I installed this, I followed this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Brother_HL-2170W and I could essentially go through all the steps, except that there was only "Brother HL-2170W Foomatic/ljet4d (en)" as the option (notice that it is "ljet4d (en)" instead of "ljet4e (en)"). I tried installing this package, but still I didn't find any new option. What does this package supposed to add that doesn't already come with cups?

Comment by xia0er

2011-09-30 20:16

@FlyingIsFun1217, I don't seem to have the problem. If I understand it correctly, it looks like a problem of needing to set paper type in both cups and brother driver, but I am not sure editing /usr/share/Brother/inf/brHL2170Wrc to another hard-coded paper type is the way to go. If the solution suggested in Arch forum works, could you just

# brprintconfiglpr2 -P HL2170W -pt A4

to switch to the appropriate paper size?

Anonymous comment

2011-09-26 21:49

Just to clarify, the file that would need to be edited would be /usr/share/Brother/inf/brHL2170Wrc

Anonymous comment

2011-09-26 16:39

After wondering why the printing margins have always been screwed up on Arch on this printer, I found this forum topic.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=444767#p444767

Definitely something that needs to be edited for this package too.

Comment by xia0er

2010-10-21 00:07

download link updated (no change to the package binaries).

Comment by nicedream

2010-04-24 21:32

Link to the files at brother.com are dead.