Hallo.
I used to run Kubuntu 20.04 and I used my printer Brother DCP-1610W without any problem. I had the driver installed with the installer downloaded from the Brother site.

Now I am running Kubuntu 22.04 and I cannot configure my printer properly.

• The old installer does not work anymore. It downloads .deb packages that are not in line any more with the distributions, so they do not work
• The new release of Kubuntu recognized the printer and the scanner on its own (great improvement on the older release). The scanner works fine, but for the printer the suggested driver does not work so well

The suggested driver (that I am now using) is DCP-1200 Foomatic/hl1250

What happens is that the test page gets printed correctly, some pdf gets printed correctly, but other pdfs and Libre Office documents get printed with characters all distorted.

It never happened to me before, usually if the test page is fine everything is fine...

Can anybody with similar printers advise on the best driver?

Thank you very much

iqbala,

This is the standard procedure for downloading and installing Linux .deb drivers.

Visit here:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/down...w_eu_as&os=128

Then click on “Driver Install Tool” > https://support.brother.com/g/b/down...ng=4&type3=625

Click on “Agree to the EULA and Download”.

Step 1. Download the tool (linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1.gz)

The tool will be downloaded into the default "Downloads" directory. (NB If you have downloaded to another directory, such as Desktop, then change the command below accordingly.

(The directory location varies depending on your Linux distribution.)

e.g. /home/iqbala/Downloads

Step 2. Open a terminal window.

Step 3. Go to the directory you downloaded the file to in the last step. By using the cd command.

Step 4. Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:

Step 5. Get superuser authorization with the "su" command or "sudo su" command.
Step 6. Run the tool:

Step 7. The driver installation will start. Follow the installation screen directions.

When you see the message "Will you specify the DeviceURI?",

For USB Users: Choose N(No)

For Network Users: Choose Y(Yes) and DeviceURI number.

The install process may take some time. Please wait until it is complete.

Further to the above, many of the older Brother drivers are 32-bit, so the following Brother FAQ may apply...

The steps described by beachboy2 were the ones that I said did not work.
The post from ferrari solved the issue.

Glad to have been of guidance. (It catches a lot of users out.)

Only thing is, during installation process, I got the terroristic message "This driver is depreceted and will stop working in next versions of CUPS"...

I don't know if I need to be worried, but I'll think about it when/if it will stop working...

Yes, CUPS is moving to driverless printing. Refer 'man lpadmin':
https://www.cups.org/doc/man-lpadmin.html

How do I understand if my printer supports IPP?

Most modern printers do support IPP protocol.

The ippfind command...
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/...find.1.en.html

Not a complete list, but just some of many models supporting 'driverless printing'...
https://openprinting.github.io/printers/

I encourage you to take the time to read this for yourself...
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting