Brother MFC 9600 networked printer - am completely lost
 

Hi Im recently new to Mandrake 10.1 community and I cant seem to grasp networked printing, so as of yet im having to email myself and print it using my brothers windows machine! I know alot about computing but not enough to seem to figure this whole precedure out. Does anyone have a solution that doesnt include a 60 page manual? The specs are a Brother MFC 9600 and it has partial compatibility I am told.

Yours Waiting
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Hi david.miko, welcome to lq. Is the printer in question attached to the linux machine or the windows box?
good luck.

The printer is on a network router which supports a print server and the printer device is known as lp1 and supports unix clients

Have you tried configuring the printer via cups?

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html

good luck.

I have tried but CUPS is not detecting the printer over the network :(

What does lpinfo -v return? What device uri are you using?
good luck.