Getting the Brother dcp9045cdn working was a bit of a chore with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
I fired up the printer add tool: System -> Administration -> Printing.
Rather amazingly, it automagically spotted the printer on the network when you click "New -> Printer".
Unfortunately there's no drivers installed by default, and none were discovered automatically. I needed to install the additional packages, and it looks like these are brother-cups-wrapper-ac, brother-lpr-drivers-ac and associated dependencies. I could then select the Brother DCP-9045CDN CUPS v1.1 [en] driver.
According to edubuntu wiki brother driver packaging these are the packages needed, also a list found on Brother printers and Ubuntu 8.04.
Unfortunately it's not all plain sailing from there on in. My first attempt to print was met with the error printer foo: cups-missing-filter; following the cups-missing-filter thread led me to try the command: sudo aa-complain cupsd
This didn't completely solve it as the printer still appeared to be disabled. Connecting to the cupsd web-based admin page at http://127.0.0.1:631/, clicking manage printers, then my printer, then start printer seemed to do the trick.
I can now print again. Hurrah!
Point. Counter-point. Counter-counter point: Plug the printer in, open a document, and print (from 2003 ... gosh).
Posted by savs at November 5, 2008 2:05 PM