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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"