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Brother Laser Printer + Arch Linux

Created: 2024-12-08

Back to arch-linux.

The setup instructions for Arch Linux to print with a Brother laser printer with PCL emulation are the same as my instructions for Slackware here: Brother HL-L5100DN and Slackware Linux

The difference is that you’ll need to install both the cups package (I’m 98% sure I installed it manually, though I can find no evidence of this in my command history):

pacman -Sy cups

And the ghostscript package:

pacman -Sy ghostscript

For some reasons, ghostscript (executable gs) is not listed as required, but my attempts to print without it resulted in failed/stalled jobs with this message:

canceled at Sun 08 Dec 2024 04:03:48 PM EST "cfFilterGhostscript: cfFilterGhostscript: Unable to launch Ghostscript: gs: No such file or directory"