Configuring Brother MFC-L2700DW

[zoof]

I’m having a hard time configuring my Brother printer with NixOS. I have brlaser, mfcl2700dnlpr and mfcl2700dncupswrapper installed. Gnome’s printers screen shows the printer but I am unable to print a test page. I also have system-printer-config which I have had success configuring my printer with Gnome in other distributions but no luck.

Suggestions?

[peterhoeg]

I’m linking to my own post when someone had a similar problem. IPP Everywhere really is the way to go:

Brother DCP-572DW wrapper

So this is slightly off-topic, but I’m hoping it can help you. I have a Brother printer too, and it turns out that it supports “IPP Everywhere” which was completely new to me. So this is the only config I use to get mine working: hardware = let brother = "Brother_HL-3170CDW_NixOS"; hostName = "printer.home.hoeg.com"; in { printers = { ensureDefaultPrinter = brother; ensurePrinters = [ { name = brother; deviceUri = "ipp://${hostName}/ip…

[zoof]

Thank you! This goes in configuration.nix? I get an undefined variable 'lib' error. I assume this means that I have a misconfiguration somewhere else (I’m pretty new to NixOS).

[austin]

Should be able to add lib to your imports (the stuff in {} at the top of your configuration.nix) or change lib to pkgs.lib.

[zoof]

@peterhoeg @austin Thank you both! Printing now works!