Maybole Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Having recently installed a Linux Mint OS on an older laptop, I find that I cannot tie in my printer. It is a Brother DCP-T300 3 years old and the installation disc does not supply drivers for Linux systems. I have downloaded and saved dcpt300cupswrapper-3.0.2-0.i386.deba driver for the printer but not yet the scanner, but the installation tool asks for a "Device URI" I have been unable to find out what this is. Experts, please enlighten me and/or point me at a simpler method, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 (edited) Um, google search, maybe? When I did I got: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=th&lang=en&prod=dcpt300_all Hint: Linux distributions are mainly divided into two packaging formats: rpm and deb. Distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, Fedora and CentOS are based on rpm, while the Debian family, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS are based on deb.Jun 16, 2016 Also: The support.brother.com dialog box gave me a stupid error message when initially selecting Linux (deb) option. Just close it and select "English" in the dropdown. No drivers, utilities, and firmware are available in your language. Close this message screen, and then select the language from the language drop-down list. ( CLOSE ) Edited October 1, 2020 by RichCor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Maybole said: the installation tool asks for a "Device URI" I have been unable to find out what this is. URI is Uniform Resource Identifier [Solved] CUPS Configuration / What is my Printer URI forums.linuxmint.com https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/brother-printers.html Edited October 1, 2020 by RichCor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimpy Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 I'd ask at the Mint forum, not here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumballl Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Oh Brother! Try Google... https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/brother-printers.html Better yet, throw away the printer, and splurge for $50 on an HP printer. You can use CUPS (http://localhost:631) to install an HP in minutes. Who knows, maybe CUPS can be used for the Brother printer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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