CUPS/Printer-specific problems

This article contains printer or manufacturer-specific instructions for CUPS. See OpenPrinting if your printer is not already listed here, or if none of the listed drivers work.

Note: If you add a printer to this list, consider contributing your entry to OpenPrinting - that way users of other distributions will also benefit!

Brother

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
DCP-135C	brother-dcp135c^AUR
DCP-150C	brother-dcp150c^AUR
DCP-7020	foomatic	Or Brother's driver.
DCP-7030	brother-dcp7030^AUR
DCP-7065DN	brother-dcp7065dn^AUR
FAX-2820	brother-cups-wrapper-laser^AUR
FAX-2840	brother-fax2840^AUR	Or foomatic - works mostly with `hpijs-pcl5e.ppd`. Same as the HL-2170W.
HL-2030	foomatic	Or brother-hl2030^AUR
HL-2035	foomatic	Should be compatible with any drivers for the HL-2030.
HL-2040	foomatic	Or brother-hl2040^AUR
HL-2130	foomatic (using the HL-2140 driver)	Or hplip
HL-2140	foomatic	Or brother-hl2140^AUR
HL-2170W	foomatic	Or Brother's driver.
HL-2230	foomatic	Same as HL-2170W. Select HL-2170W as the driver in CUPS admin when adding a printer.
HL-2250DN	brother-hl2250dn^AUR
HL-2270DW	brother-hl2270dw^AUR
HL-2280DW	brother-hl2280dw^AUR
HL-2340DW	brother-hll2340dw^AUR
HL-3045CN	Install Brother's driver.
HL-3150CDW	brother-hl3150cdw^AUR
HL-3170CDW	brother-hl3170cdw^AUR
HL-5140	foomatic	Or Brother's driver.
HL-5340	foomatic	Using the Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint (gutenprint, foomatic-db-gutenprint^{[broken link: package not found]} and foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds). Or Brother's driver, which may result in failed prints with postscript errors.
HL-L2300D	brother-hll2300d^AUR
HL-L2380DW	brother-hll2380dw^AUR
MFC-420CN	brother-mfc-420cn^AUR^{[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}
MFC-440CN	brother-mfc-440cn^AUR
MFC-465CN	brother-mfc-465cn^AUR^{[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}
MFC-7360N	Install Brother's driver.
MFC-9320CW	Install Brother's driver.
MFC-9840CDW	foomatic	Or Brother's driver. This printer also works with the generic PCL-6 driver from the gutenprint package. Use pcl_p1 for the printer's address when using the PCL-6 driver.
MFC-J470DW	brother-mfc-j470dw^AUR
MFC-J5520DW	brother-mfc-j5520dw^AUR
MFC-J5910DW	brother-mfc-j5910dw^AUR
MFC-J650DW	Install Brother's driver.
MFC-J885DW	brother-mfc-j885dw^AUR
MFC-L2700DW	brother-mfc-l2700dw^AUR	Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
QL-500	brother-ql500^AUR
QL-570	brother-ql570^AUR
QL-580N	brother-ql580n^AUR
QL-650TD	brother-ql650td^AUR
QL-700	brother-ql700^AUR
QL-710W	brother-ql710w^AUR
QL-720NW	brother-ql720nw^AUR
QL-1050	brother-ql1050^AUR
QL-1050N	brother-ql1050n^AUR
QL-1060	brother-ql1060n^AUR
TD-2020	brother-td2020^AUR
TD-2120N	brother-td2120n^AUR
TD-2130N	brother-td2130n^AUR
TD-4000	brother-td4000^AUR
TD-4100N	brother-td4100n^AUR
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Network printers

For network printers, use ipp://printer_ip/ipp/port1 as printer address. For some older printers, this might not work. If not, try lpd://printer_ip/BINARY_P1 instead.

Some printers use the socket protocol. For these printers, use socket://printer_ip:9100. For http, use http://printer_ip/POSTSCRIPT_P1.

Custom drivers

Brother provides custom drivers on their website, either in source tarball, rpm, or deb form. Packaging Brother printer drivers covers creating PKGBUILDs from the existing RPM packages.

Note: The source packages might be a better alternative to the rpm packages, provided they contain all the needed files.

Manually installing from the RPM packages

Warning: This should ideally be automated in a PKGBUILD

Install the rpmextract package, and extract both rpm packages using rpmextract.sh. Extracting both files will create a var and a usr directory - move the contents of both directories into the corresponding root directories.

Run the cups wrapper file in /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper. This should automatically install and configure your brother printer.

Multiple Copy Problem

Sometimes when using the latest drivers, the printer will print multiple copies (my MFC-9330CDW printed 10 copies, yours may differ). The solution is to update the firmware (there is a windows tool, but it didn't work for me). To start you will need snmpwalk (found here: http://www.ireasoning.com/downloadmibbrowserfree.php).

mkdir Brother_FW
cd Brother_FW
wget http://www.ireasoning.com/download/mibfree/mibbrowser.zip
unzip mibbrowser.zip
./ireasoning/mibbrowser/snmpwalk.sh -c public $PRINTER_IP > snmp_output.log
cat snmp_output.log | grep -A 1 3.6.1.4.1.2435.2.4.3.99.3.1.6.1.2

At this point, you will have the relevant data that has to be passed to Brother to get a valid Firmware download link. That file will look similar to the one below (name it request.xml):

<REQUESTINFO>
   <FIRMUPDATETOOLINFO>
       <FIRMCATEGORY>MAIN</FIRMCATEGORY>
       <OS>LINUX</OS>
       <INSPECTMODE>1</INSPECTMODE>
   </FIRMUPDATETOOLINFO>

   <FIRMUPDATEINFO>
       <MODELINFO>
           <SELIALNO></SELIALNO>
           <NAME>MFC-9330CDW</NAME>
           <SPEC>0401</SPEC>
           <DRIVER></DRIVER>
           <FIRMINFO>
               <FIRM>
                   <ID>MAIN</ID>
                   <VERSION>R1506121801:4504</VERSION>
               </FIRM>
               <FIRM>
                   <ID>SUB1</ID>
                   <VERSION>1.07</VERSION>
               </FIRM>
               <FIRM>
                   <ID>SUB2</ID>
                   <VERSION>L1505291600</VERSION>
               </FIRM>
           </FIRMINFO>
       </MODELINFO>
       <DRIVERCNT>1</DRIVERCNT>
       <LOGNO>2</LOGNO>
       <ERRBIT></ERRBIT>
       <NEEDRESPONSE>1</NEEDRESPONSE>
   </FIRMUPDATEINFO>
</REQUESTINFO>

Next, we post this file to Brother and extract the resulting URL.

curl -X POST -d @request.xml https://firmverup.brother.co.jp/kne_bh7_update_nt_ssl/ifax2.asmx/fileUpdate -H "Content-Type:text/xml" > response.xml

In response.xml you will find a <PATH> tag that contains the url. Next, we download the firmware, push it to the printer, and let the printer process it. Before that is done, change the Admin password to something known, it will be used as the user to log into the FTP site (VERY bad practice, don't do this).

wget http://update-akamai.brother.co.jp/CS/LZ4266_W.djf
ftp $PRINTER_IP
 bin
 hash
 send LZ4266_W.djf
 bye

With that, the printer will restart, and the latest firmware will be installed and (hopefully) your printing woes will be solved.

Canon

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Reason: It would good if the driver table could be removed or somehow merged into the main table (Discuss in Talk:CUPS/Printer-specific problems#)

Driver	Description
gutenprint	Supports many Canon printers.
cndrvcups-lb^AUR	Canon UFR II /LIPSLX Printer Driver build from source for LBP, iR & MF printers
cndrvcups-lb-bin^AUR	Canon UFR II/UFR II LT Printer Driver (including Canon imageCLASS MF4720w)
cnijfilter-mg4200^AUR	Canon IJ Printer Driver (for mg4200 series)
capt-src^AUR	Canon CAPT Printer Driver (for Canon i-Sensys printers)
cups-bjnp^AUR	CUPS back-end for the canon printers using the proprietary USB over IP BJNP protocol

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
iP4300	gutenprint	Or use Canon's cnijfilter-ip4300^AUR^{[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]} driver, or the TurboPrint driver.
LBP810	capt-src^AUR
LBP1120
LBP1210
LBP2900
LBP3000
LBP3010
LBP3018
LBP3050
LBP3100
LBP3108
LBP3150
LBP3200
LBP3210
LBP3250
LBP3300
LBP3310
LBP3500
LBP5000
LBP5050 series
LBP5100
LBP5300
LBP6000
LBP6018
LBP6020
LBP6200
LBP6300
LBP6300n
LBP6310dn
LBP7010C
LBP7018C
LBP7200Cdn (network mode)
LBP7200C series
LBP7210Cdn
LBP9100C
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Some Canon printers will use a similar setup to the iP4500, so consider modifying the cnijfilter-ip4500^AUR package for other, similar printers.

CARPS

Some of Canon's printers use Canon's proprietary Canon Advanced Raster Printing System (CARPS) driver. Rainbow Software have managed to reverse engineer the CARPS data format and have successfully created a CARPS CUPS driver, which is available as carps-cups^AUR. The project's GitHub page includes a list of working printers.

CAPT

See Canon CAPT.

Dell

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
1250C	foo2zjs-nightly^AUR	See http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/hbpl, the patch has been merged into upstream. The printer may also work with the Xerox Phaser 6000B driver.
E515, E515dw	Install Dell's driver.	Both e515dwcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.deb and e515dwlpr-3.2.0-1.i386.deb need to be installed. You could either write a PKGBUILD, use debtap^AUR, or use dpkg^AUR (using dpkg is not recommended as the files will not be managed by pacman). The driver works on both the x86_64 and i386 platforms, but may require multilib.
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Epson

epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR is a driver for the Epson Inkjet Printer Driver (ESC/P-R) for Linux.

There is a large selection of printer drivers/filters available in the AUR.

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
AcuLaser CX11(NF)	epson-alcx11-filter^AUR
AcuLaser C900		This printer uses Epson's driver, with a device URI of 'usb://EPSON/AL-C900', and may need the pipsplus service to be running.
TX125	epson-inkjet-printer-n10-nx127^AUR
LP-S5000		This printer requires a custom driver from Avasys.
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Utilities

escputil

escputil is part of the gutenprint package, and performs some utility functions on Epson printers such as nozzle cleaning.

mtink

This is a printer status monitor which enables to get the remaining ink quantity, to print test patterns, to reset printer and to clean nozzle. It use an intuitive graphical user interface.

Stylus-toolbox

This is a GUI using escputil and cups drivers. It supports nearly all USB printer of Epson and displays ink quantity, can clean and align print heads and print test patterns.

Custom drivers

Avasys

Warning: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD.

"Source" code of the driver is available on the avasys website, in Japanese, however it includes a 32 bit binary which will cause problem on 64 bit system.

Install the psutils, bc, libstdc++5 packages (lib32-libstdc++5 on 64bit).

Download the source code of the driver.
Compile and install the driver.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
# make install

If you have any problems on a 64 system, some other lib32 libraries may be required. Please adjust this page if that is the case.

HP

Most HP printers will use hplip, but some may use hpoj^AUR.

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
Photosmart 2575	hplip	Or use the hpijs driver in foomatic.
DeskJet 710C	pnm2ppa^AUR
DeskJet 712C
DeskJet 720C
DeskJet 722C
DeskJet 820se
DeskJet 820Cxi
DeskJet 1000Cse
DeskJet 1000Cxi
LaserJet P1606dn	hplip + hplip-plugin^AUR	Or foo2zjs-nightly^AUR.
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

HPLIP Driver

hplip provides drivers for HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, Photosmart, Business Inkjet, and some LaserJet printers, and also provides an easy to use setup tool.

To run the setup tool with the GUI qt frontend:

# hp-setup -u

To run the setup tool with the command line frontend:

# hp-setup -i

To set up directly the configuration of a network connected HP printer:

# hp-setup -i <ip address>

To run systray spool manager:

$ hp-systray

To generate a URI for a given ip address:

# hp-makeuri <ip address>

PPD files are in /usr/share/ppd/HP/.

For printers that require the proprietary HP plugin (like the Laserjet Pro P1102w or 1020), install the hplip-plugin^AUR package from AUR.

Note:

hplip depends on foomatic-db-engine which prevents the drivers list from appearing when a printer is added to CUPS via the web user interface (following error : "Unable to get list of printer drivers"). Possible workarounds:

Either: Install hplip first, then retrieve the PPD file that matches your printer from /usr/share/ppd/HP/. Next, remove hplip entirely as well as any unnecessary dependencies. Finally, install the printer manually using the CUPS web UI, selecting the PPD file you retrieved, and then re-install hplip. After a reboot, you should have a fully working printer.
Or: Remove hplip, foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine along with any unnecessary dependencies. Reinstall hplip and restart CUPS. Install your printer using the CUPS web UI, which should now be able to find the drivers automatically. No reboot needed.

Konica

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
Minolta Magicolor 1600W	foomatic
Minolta Magicolor 1680MF
Minolta Magicolor 1690MF
Minolta Magicolor 2480MF
Minolta Magicolor 2490MF
Minolta Magicolor 2530DL
Minolta Magicolor 4690MF
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Lexmark

Utilities

Lexmark provides a utility called lexijtools with the drivers.

Custom drivers

Lexmark does provide Linux drivers for all their hardware. The following packages are required:

cups
sane
ncurses
libusb
libxext
libxtst
libxi
libstdc++5
krb5
lua (for the automated installer)
Java (for the automated installer, and some of the Lexmark tools)

The drivers will need to be downloaded from Lexmark's website. Preferably, create a package (see Creating packages) and install it. Here is a basic PKGBUILD that still needs work but will give an idea of what is required.

PKGBUILD

# Contributor: Todd Partridge (Gen2ly) toddrpartridge (at) yahoo

pkgname=cups-lexmark-Z2300-2600
pkgver=1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Lexmark Z2300 and 2600 Series printer driver for cups"
arch=('i686')
url="http://www.lexmark.com/"
license=('custom')
depends=('cups' 'glibc' 'ncurses' 'libusb' 'libxext' 'libxtst' 'libxi' 'libstdc++5' 'krb5' 'lua' 'java-runtime')
conflicts=('z600' 'cjlz35le-cups' 'cups-lexmark-700')
source=(lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.tar.gz.sh)
md5sums=(3c37eb87e3dad4853bf29344f9695134)


package() {
  # Extract installer
  sh lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.tar.gz.sh --target Installer-Files
  cd Installer-Files
  mkdir Driver
  tar xvvf instarchive_all --lzma -C Driver/
  cd Driver
  tar xv lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.tar.gz -C $pkgdir
}

Keep in mind you can use the automated installer but doing so will leave the resulting changes untracked. The PPD will be installed into /usr/local/lexmark/lxk08/etc/ or similar, depending on the printer model.

Oki

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
C110	foomatic
MC561	foomatic-db-nonfree
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Samsung

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: All the cnijfilter drivers appear to be for Canon printers - maybe the cnijfilter comment would be better off in the Canon section? (Discuss in Talk:CUPS/Printer-specific problems#)

For printers requiring the cnijfilter drivers, search for the correct driver in the AUR

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
ML-2010	splix
Newer printers?	samsung-unified-driver^AUR
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Xerox or FujiXerox

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
DocuPrint 203A	hplip	Using the DocuPrint P8e(hpijs) driver, or the Brother driver on FujiXerox's website (see #Brother for more information on how to install custom Brother drivers).
Phaser 3100MFP	Install Xerox's driver	See #Phaser 3100MFP for more instructions.
Phaser 6115MFP	foomatic
Phaser 6121MFP	foomatic
?	fxlinuxprint^AUR^{[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Custom drivers

Phaser 3100MFP

Warning: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD.

Once you have downloaded the drivers, execute the driver installer and accept the licence:

# cd printer
# ./XeroxPhaser3100.install

Note that the driver is 32 bit, so some 32 bit libraries will be required on an x86_64 system.

For the scanner, create an /etc/sane.d directory if it doesn't already exist, because it's need by the installer:

# mkdir -p /etc/sane.d

Now install the driver:

# cd scanner/
# ./XeroxPhaser3100sc.install

Again, on an x86_64 install, 32 bit libraries will be needed.

Phaser 6000B

Install the xerox-phaser-6010 package (archived from the AUR). The driver may require older versions of nettle and gnutls to be installed, since the binary blob linked against older versions of the shared libraries provided by those packages. The oldest known-good versions are nettle-2.7.1-1 and gnutls-3.3.13-1.

Phaser 6125N

Warning: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD.

FujiXerox does not support Linux on this model. An old rpm is available but does not seem to work.

A slightly adapted custom driver has been found to work out of the box.

To install the tarball, run

# tar -C / --keep-newer-files -xvzf cups-xerox-phaser-6125n-1.0.0.tar.gz

CUPS/Printer-specific problems

Contents

Brother

Network printers

Custom drivers

Manually installing from the RPM packages

Multiple Copy Problem

Canon

CARPS

CAPT

Dell

Epson

Utilities

escputil

mtink

Stylus-toolbox

Custom drivers

Avasys

HP

HPLIP Driver

Konica

Lexmark

Utilities

Custom drivers

Oki

Samsung

Xerox or FujiXerox

Custom drivers

Phaser 3100MFP

Phaser 6000B

Phaser 6125N

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