Printer Drivers

Forked from Volker Diels-Grabsch

Drivers for CUPS to get some printers working under GNU/Linux.
These are PPD files as well as direct contributions to foomatic-db.

Created 2007-01-04, Last updated 2014-05-05 (FH 2018-08-05)
Software

PPD file for Brother HL-2240D

Instructions


Manjaro

Install the manjaro-printer meta package

sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-printer

Enable and start the cups printer service

sudo systemctl enable --now cups

Create a Brother folder in /usr/share/ppd

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/ppd/Brother

Then, as root, download the PPD files into /usr/share/ppd/Brother/:

cd /usr/share/ppd/Brother
wget -c https://www.uex.dk/public/archive/Brother/Brother-HL-2240D-hpijs-pcl5e.ppd
wget -c https://www.uex.dk/public/archive/Brother/Brother-HL-2240D-hl1250.ppd
chmod 644 *

That's it! Run the Print Settings app, add add your printer, it will find the Brother HL-2240D drivers


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