Cups-brother-hl1210w not shown in CUPS drivers

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1

Hi all,
my Brother HL-1223WE (wifi) is detected but no driver is available in CUPS.

My configuration includes

services = {
    avahi = {
      enable = true;
      nssmdns = true;
    };

    printing = {
      enable = true;
      drivers = with pkgs; [
        cups-brother-hl1210w
      ];
    };
  };

The printer works with the same drivers on my Fedora and Arch systems.

Thanks!

2

Hi
i’m just a beginner but as a random guess try this

avahi = {
  enable = true;
  nssmdns = true;
  #add below line
  openFirewall = true;
};

Can you see your printer name in print section of some software (firefox or anything) when you choose the printer?

3

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately my printer does not support IPP Everywhere and auto-discovery.

4

What’s the output of these two commands? (if privacy is important modify the output then send it here)

lpinfo -v

lpstat -v -p
5 
% lpinfo -v
network dnssd://Brother%20HL-1210W%20series._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/?uuid=XXX-XXX
network dnssd://Brother%20HL-1210W%20series._printer._tcp.local/?uuid=XXX-XXX

% lpstat -v -p
lpstat: No destinations added.
lpstat: No destinations added.
6

I can’t understand why first one result shows the printer but the second one doesn’t
Sorry, i think i don’t have enough knowledge to help more

7

No worries. Thanks anyways.

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