| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/brother-mfc-j435w.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | brother-mfc-j435w |
| Description: | LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-J435W |
| Upstream URL: | https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj435w_us |
| Licenses: | GPL2, custom |
| Submitter: | Jtm-lis |
| Maintainer: | arbitar |
| Last Packager: | arbitar |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Popularity: | 0.000000 |
| First Submitted: | 2020-09-01 02:05 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2022-06-20 03:09 (UTC) |
thanks jtm-lis!
note to others: this package should now automatically place the CUPS filter and PPD into their appropriate respective locations at /usr/lib/cups/filter/ and /usr/share/cups/model/ so all you should need to do now is install this package, enable/start cups, add the printer /w the PPD that should show up under Brother, use either lpd://PRINTER_IP/BINARY_P1 or http://PRINTER_IP/POSTSCRIPT_P1, and go!
Arbitar I no longer have the printer, so if you want to maintain this package that would be ideal. I have added you as co-maintainer and disowned the package. It now has you as the maintainer, let me know if you need anything on my end. I think this will better serve the software, esp. with your touchups.
Best,
Jtm-lis
thank you, julien! all up and running. lpd/BINARY_P1 didn't work for me, but i'm chalking that up to the mysteries of the brother firmware.
some minor issues: first, this did not automatically link-in or otherwise install the filter into /usr/lib/cups/filter/ - i had to do this manually:
# ln -s /opt/brother/Printers/mfcj435w/lpd/filtermfcj435w /usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj435w
further, i foolishly did not have ghostscript installed. this caused jobs to instantly complete successfully (!?) but inspection of the debug-level output of cupsd revealed a failure to find gs.
afterwards, i was able to set it up as http://printer/POSTSCRIPT_P1 and manually specifying the ppd at: /opt/brother/Printers/mfcj435w/cupswrapper/brother_mfcj435w_printer_en.ppd - maybe this could also get moved into /usr/share/cups/model/? not as sure on this, since i just picked it manually.
these might be nice tweaks to this package moving forward? either way, i'm happy :)
Github mirror - https://github.com/jtm-lis/aur_brother-mfc-j435w/
To print from my system, I had to add the printer in CUPS as a 'LPD/LPR Host or Printer', and my connection is 'lpd://PRINTER_IP/BINARY_P1' substituting my printer's ip address for PRINTER_IP. Hope this helps someone else.
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Jtm-lis commented on 2020-09-01 02:09 (UTC)
To print from my system, I had to add the printer in CUPS as a 'LPD/LPR Host or Printer', and my connection is 'lpd://PRINTER_IP/BINARY_P1' substituting my printer's ip address for PRINTER_IP. Hope this helps someone else.