Use copy/paste to transfer the following line to the terminal:.
Now copy/paste the following command into the terminal, in order to unzip the downloaded file (it’s one line):.
(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*) Note: don’t use the installation how-to on the Brother website, but use the installation how-to on my website instead (see below)! Don’t extract the zipped file, but leave it there just as it is.
Save the downloaded file in the folder Downloads.
Then click the Driver Install Tool and download linux-brprinter-installer.
For “OS Version” you select Linux (deb).
Go to the download section of the Brother website and look up your printer model.
First remove any existing instance of the Brother printer in the application Printers.
With that, you can install not only the printer driver, but also (for a multifunctional printer) the scanner driver.
Connect your printer to your computer by means of a USB cable (even when you intend to use it as a network printer later on: for initial installation a USB cable is often needed).
Or your printer might simply be too new for the database in your version of Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
But if you have a multifunctional printer, this doesn’t get the scanner part operational:.
In Printers, click the button Add (with the + sign) and follow the steps it offers you.
You can use the search box in your menu to find it it’s present by default in all editions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint. In that case the application Printers already contains the driver for your printer, but you have to “indicate” the printer first.
Sometimes it’s necessary to add a printer or scanner to the system yourself, by means of the application Printers.
Installing the driver manually isn’t very difficult either, because Brother has issued a generic install script for that: the Driver Install Tool.
Brother printers: how to install them in Ubuntu and Linux Mint:
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