Laser Multifunction printer MFC-L2710DW on Artix Linux

05 October 2023, 12:48:17

Hello, a little resume of steps needed to make this printer work.

Substantially it could be made to work in "driverless mode" even for scanning.

For scanning it need to downlod the package sane-airprint from Arch Linux, no need to activate arch packages in pacman.conf.

Downloading and installing with:

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pacman -U <package name>

should do the job.

printing is more easy as it should work flawlessy simply setting:

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sudo lpadmin -p L2710 -E -v ipp://192.168.0.102/ipp -m everywhere

once set the IP address whit the printer control panel.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing

You have to install obviously CUPS and the package needed for networked printers (avahi and similar).

This method should work for every Brother model that has the W suffix, as it is using the mechanics used for "Wireless printing".

From some informations collected it should not be possible to use at same time Wireless printing and network printing, but the printer configuration panel, is easy enough to make the switch in less than 1 minute.

Hope it helps.

Regards

Carlo D.

Re: Laser Multifunction printer MFC-L2710DW on Artix Linux

Reply #1 – 27 October 2023, 11:02:31

A little notice.

Further investigation shown that the method above is not using best settings for your printers, but it could suffice for most of the work.

As example scanning is done at 600dpi instead of the 1200dpi that seems to be the hardware limit of the scanner.

But is the most quick way to obtain a working setup for this printer, if not you have to install the proper driver from Brother or use some other Arch Linux Packages, notably brscan4 and the printer drivers that are present in AUR.

As the PKGBUILD present in AUR has some problems, they lacks of some required packages, I'm trying to update it to make it work without too much fiddling.

Regards

Carlo D.