Saturday, January 21, 2012

Brother HL-2270DW on Ubuntu

I just installed the Brother HL-2270DW on Ubuntu 10.04. I tried the official driver and forced the i386 deb package to install with:

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb

That didn't appear to do anything, but I figured I'd mention it in case it actually did help.

Since I'm using CUPS (I think it's the default for Ubuntu), I followed Step 5Bb of Brother's official instructions. But under "Model/Driver Selection" I selected the HL-2170W since the HL-2270DW wasn't listed. It was a shot-in-the-dark, but it worked. I printed the first page of the Brother instructions just fine.