Getting a Brother HL-2250DN Printer to work over Ethernet

Question

For 3 years I had an HP OfficeJet G55 running on Ubuntu - great! loved it, all was simple and just worked ... then it broke. I ordered a new printer a Brother HL-2250DN.

I've got the drivers from Brother, so USB is okay. Networked... for the rest of my laptops and computers... no it is using gutenprint - nice project but printing at a resolution of 100 is just diabolical. How I wish I could just go back to my OfficeJet G55.

I know this is due to hardware manufacturers, but how do I just use my printer?

Solution 1

Got it working networked with Generic PCL6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic Even Duplex works - go to add printer, I click networked printer, with nothing in the search box I click 'find' and wait for it to appear. Then select it and when choosing the driver, choose Generic : PCL6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic pxlcolor - all works fine for me. Use the same procedure and driver for USB connected Printer

Solution 2

On Ubuntu 14.10 I did the same as @matthew-hudson in his answer, but with one wrinkle. I had to use the listing for the printer with an IP address next to it (there were two listings: one with and one without an IP address). The listing with an IP address took longer to appear in the list than the one without.

Solution 3

This worked for me in 16.04

• print the Printer's settings (pressing the Go button 3x in less than 2s)
• find the printer's IP address on the last page
• go to System settings->Printers
• click “Add”
• select “LPD/LPR Host or Printer”
• enter the printer’s IP address as Host
• enter “PCL_P1” as Queue

Comments

[Matthew Hudson]

Got it working networked with Generic PCL6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic Even Duplex works! However, I still stand by my comments that it should not be this difficult - I believe we (the linux community) have it sorted with most internal hardware now, installing Ubuntu is a breeze - if we can crack this issue we will be leagues ahead.

[Braiam]

Could you share the steps you followed to make it work?

[Matthew Hudson]

Braiam, on 13.04 - go to add printer, I click networked printer, with nothing in the search box I click 'find' and wait for it to appear. Then select it and when choosing the driver, choose Generic : PCL6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic pxlcolor - all works fine for me. Use the same procedure and driver for USB connected Printer

[Braiam]

Arg! I hate when I'm so ambiguious. In the space below, it says "Your Answer", you can write it there.

[ahcox]

Thanks, worked for me on 14.10 with one wrinkle: askubuntu.com/a/709896/130331