Question concerning the installation of a brother printer

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Cathie3
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Beigetreten: 04/22/2024

Hello dear community

I have got a printer from brother, model HL - 11, also called HL-1110.
It is saud to be compatible with Linux.

Now I have different questions concerning the installation on my notebook, driven by Trisquel.

Brother offers different an install tool and different printer drivers for Linux. Which driver do I have to install ?LPR Printer driver (deb paackage) or Cup Swrapper Driver (deb package)?

What are the following steps afterwards?

Thank ypu very much in forward!
Kind regards
Cathie3

eric23
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Beigetreten: 06/30/2017

The printer driver you want to try is the 'printer-driver-brlaser' available in the repositories of this distribution.

You can open the synaptic package manager to install the software: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-software-installation-trisquel-different-windows

We can't recommend using the proprietary drivers as it goes against the community guidelines: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines .

Cathie3
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Beigetreten: 04/22/2024

Hello Eric

thank you so much for this helpful answer

I was also insecure concerning the question if these debian packages are propriate or not, but didnt know how to do otherwise.

Now I can follow this link hoping that the installation is self explaining:)

Thanks again and I wish you a goodday!

Cathie

Cathie3
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Beigetreten: 04/22/2024

Hello Eric, hello Christoph

it works:) I could find and successfully install it.

Thanks a lot, good evenng
Cathie3