CUPS/Printer-specific problems

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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

Note: Some printer models can be found in several entries because there are several packages or drivers for them.

Drivers for several models:

Printers Driver/filter Notes
DCP-1510 series (DCP-1510, DCP-1510r, DCP-1511, DCP-1512, DCP-1512r, DCP-1518) brother-dcp1510AUR
DCP-7010, DCP-7020, DCP-7025, DCP-8060, DCP-8065DN, FAX-2820, FAX-2920, HL-2030, HL-2040, HL-2070N, HL-5240, HL-5250DN, HL-5270DN, HL-5280DW, MFC-7220, MFC-7225N, MFC-7420, MFC-7820N, MFC-8460N, MFC-8660DN, MFC-8860DN, MFC-8870DW brother-cups-wrapper-laserAUR
HL-4040CN, HL-4040CDN, HL-4050CDN, HL-4070CDW, MFC-9440CN, MFC-9450CDN, MFC-9840CDW, DCP-9040CN, DCP-9042CDN, DCP-9045CDN brother-cups-wrapper-acAUR
DCP-1510 series, DCP-1600 series, DCP-7030, DCP-7040, DCP-7055, DCP-7055W, DCP-7060D, DCP-7065DN, DCP-7080, DCP-L2500D series, DCP-L2520D series, DCP-L2540DW series, HL-1110 series, HL-1200 series, HL-2030 series, HL-2140 series, HL-2220 series, HL-2270DW series, HL-5030 series, HL-L2300D series, HL-L2320D series, HL-L2340D series, HL-L2360D series, MFC-1910W, MFC-1919NW, MFC-7240, MFC-7360N, MFC-7365DN, MFC-7840W, Lenovo M7605D brlaserAUR
brlaser-gitAUR		 Unofficial driver, may be compatible with more models

Drivers for one model:

Printer Driver/filter Notes
DCP-135C brother-dcp135cAUR
DCP-150C brother-dcp150cAUR
DCP-150C brother-dcp150cAUR
DCP-2550DW brother-dcp-l2550dwAUR
DCP-B7500D brother-dcpb7500dAUR
DCP-L3550CDW brother-dcpl3550cdwAUR Use IPP driver as described here and here.
DCP-7020 foomatic Or Brother's driver.
DCP-7030 brother-dcp7030AUR
DCP-7065DN brother-dcp7065dnAUR
DCP-7090DW brother-dcp7090dwAUR
DCP-9020CDW brother-dcp-9020cdwAUR
DCP-9022CDW brother-dcp-9022cdwAUR
DCP-J515W brother-dcp-j515wAUR
DCP-J4110DW brother-dcpj4110dwAUR
DCP-J1200W brother-dcpj1200wAUR "DCPJ1200W" is added automatically to cups when installing this aur package. multilib not required. SANE drivers for this model: brscan5AUR
FAX-2820 brother-cups-wrapper-laserAUR
FAX-2840 brother-fax2840AUR Or foomatic - works mostly with hpijs-pcl5e.ppd. Same as the HL-2170W.
FAX-2940 brother-fax2940AUR
HL-1110 brlaser-gitAUR Tested and it works
HL-2030 foomatic Or brother-hl2030AUR
HL-2035 foomatic Should be compatible with any drivers for the HL-2030.
HL-2040 foomatic Or brother-hl2040AUR
HL-2130 foomatic (using the HL-2140 driver) Or hplip
HL-2135W brother-brgenml1AUR
HL-2140 foomatic Or brother-hl2140AUR
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-brgenml1AUR brother-hl2250dnAUR is broken?
HL-2270DW brother-hl2270dwAUR
HL-2280DW brother-hl2280dwAUR
HL-3045CN Install Brother's driver or brother-hl3040cnAUR.
HL-3140CW brother-hl3140cwAUR Use IPP and Brother's driver to avoid page-shrinking and endless blank printouts
HL-3150CDW brother-hl3150cdwAUR
HL-3170CDW brother-hl3170cdwAUR
HL-4150CDN brother-hl4150cdnAUR
HL-5140 foomatic Or Brother's driver.
HL-5340 foomatic Using the Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint (gutenprint and foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds). Or Brother's driver, which may result in failed prints with postscript errors.
HL-L2300D brother-hll2300dAUR brlaser-gitAUR works better. Using the brother driver, only defaults are honored and print-specific settings are ignored.
HL-L2340DW brother-hll2340dwAUR
HL-L2350DW brother-hll2350dwAUR
HL-L2360DN brother-hll2360dAUR Or brlaser-gitAUR
HL-L2360DW brother-hll2360dAUR brlaser-gitAUR should works.
HL-L2365DW brother-hll2360dAUR brlaser-gitAUR should works.
HL-L2380DW brother-hll2380dwAUR
HL-L2390DW Arch-provided Brother Driver Choose the ipp Driverless Brother Printer that appears on the list of #Network printers.
HL-L2395DW brother-hll2395dwAUR Use the socket protocol as described in #Network printers
HL-L3230CDW brother-hll3230cdwAUR Or https://github.com/splitbrain/archlinux-brother-hll3230cdw
HL-L3270CDW brother-hll3270cdwAUR Use the lpd protocol as described in #Network printers.
HL-L5100DN HP LaserJet Foomatic driver This model will emulate a HP LaserJet. Use the lpd protocol as described in #Network printers.
HL-L8360CDW brother-hll8360cdw-cups-binAUR
MFC-420CN brother-mfc-420cnAUR
MFC-440CN brother-mfc-440cnAUR
MFC-7360N brother-mfc7360nAUR Or brlaser-gitAUR
MFC-7460DN Gutenprint Use the Generic PCL 6 Printer wide margin - CUPS+Gutenprint driver, with address ipp://hostname-or-ip/pcl_p1.
MFC-7840W brother-mfc-7840wAUR Or brlaser-gitAUR
MFC-9320CW Install Brother's driver.
MFC-9332CDW brother-mfc-9332cdwAUR
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-J1300DW brother-mfc-j1300dwAUR Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J435W brother-mfc-j435wAUR Use lpd://[printer_addr]/BINARY_P1 or http://[printer_addr]/POSTSCRIPT_P1 as described in the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-J470DW brother-mfc-j470dwAUR Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J4710DW brother-mfc-j4710dwAUR
MFC-J480DW brother-mfc-j480dwAUR Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J5520DW brother-mfc-j5520dwAUR
MFC-J5845DW brother-mfc-j5845dwAUR Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J5910DW brother-mfc-j5910dwAUR
MFC-J650DW Install Brother's driver.
MFC-J6520DW brother-mfc-j6520dwAUR Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers
MFC-J885DW brother-mfc-j885dwAUR
MFC-J985DW brother-mfc-j985dwAUR
MFC-L2700DN brother-mfc-l2700dnAUR Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2700DW brother-mfc-l2700dwAUR Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2710DN brother-mfc-l2700dnAUR Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-L2710DW brother-mfc-l2710dwAUR Use the lpd protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-L2720DW brother-mfc-l2720dwAUR Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2730DW brother-mfc-l2730dwAUR Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2740DW brother-mfc-l2740dwAUR Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L3770CDW brother-mfc-l3770cdwAUR Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L5800DW brother-mfc-l5750dwAUR
MFC-L8600CDW brother-mfc-l8600cdwAUR Please follow the instructions on the AUR page.
QL-500 brother-ql500AUR
QL-570 brother-ql570AUR
QL-580N brother-ql580nAUR
QL-650TD brother-ql650tdAUR
QL-700 brother-ql700AUR
QL-710W brother-ql710wAUR
QL-720NW brother-ql720nwAUR
QL-1050 brother-ql1050AUR
QL-1050N brother-ql1050nAUR
QL-1060 brother-ql1060nAUR
QL-1110NWB brother-ql1110nwbAUR
TD-2020 brother-td2020AUR
TD-2120N brother-td2120nAUR
TD-2130N brother-td2130nAUR
TD-4000 brother-td4000AUR
TD-4100N brother-td4100nAUR
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

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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.

For some of the drivers 32 bit libraries may need to be installed from multilib.

Updating the firmware

Install net-snmp and run: 

$ snmpwalk -c public $PRINTER_IP | grep -A 1 3.6.1.4.1.2435.2.4.3.99.3.1.6.1.2

Or alternatively: 

$ snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 192.168.23.11 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2435.2.4.3.99.3.1.6.1.2

At this point, you will have the relevant data to get a valid firmware download link from Brother. The file should look similar to the one below: 

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>

Post this file to Brother: 

$ 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 firmware download URL. Next, 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, do not do this). 

$ wget http://update-akamai.brother.co.jp/CS/LZ4266_W.djf[dead link 2023-07-30 ⓘ]
$ ftp $PRINTER_IP|
ftp> bin
ftp> hash
ftp> send LZ4266_W.djf
ftp> bye

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

IPP-over-USB

You might experience some trouble while using the USB port on certain models.

Brother provides a shell script to create udev rules to prevent the use of IPP-over-USB. This might solve USB printing problems but means that you need to use the legacy LPR driver. See the FAQ article.

Canon

There are many possible drivers for Canon printers. Many Canon printers are supported by Gutenprint and foomatic-db-ppds. Some of Canon's LBP, iR, and MF printers use a driver supporting the UFR II/UFR II LT/LIPSLX protocols, #UFRII . Others use the #CARPS, or #cnijfilter (cnijfilter2AUR), or Canon CAPT drivers.

Printer Driver/filter Notes
iP4300 Gutenprint Or use the TurboPrint driver.
PIXMA G4000 series Misidentifies itself as Canon G3010 Series. Use Canon PIXMA G4000 - CUPS+Gutenprint driver instead.
LBP810 Canon CAPT
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
LBP7110cw (network mode) cnrdrvcups-lbAUR v 5.00
LBP112 cndrvcups-ltAUR
LBP113w
LBP151dw
LBP6018nl
LBP6030
LBP6040
LBP6230
LBP6240
LBP7100c
LBP7110c
LBP8100
MF216n (network over ldp) cndrvcups-lb-binAUR
MF635Cx
MF4720w
MF4770n
MF8080Cw See CUPS#Network for discovery.
FAX-L400 carps-cups-gitAUR
FP-L170 Should work, unverified
ICD300
imageCLASS D300
L380 Should work, unverified
L389 Should work, unverified
L390
L408S
LASERCLASS 500 Should work, unverified
LC180
LC310
LC380S
LC398S
MF350 Should work, unverified
MF3110
MF5630
MF5650 Should work, unverified
MF5730
MF5750
MF5770
PC-D300
PIXMA iP110 cnijfilter2AUR
PIXMA TR150 series
PIXMA TS200 series
PIXMA MX490 series
PIXMA MX530 series
PIXMA TS700 series
PIXMA MB2300 series
PIXMA MG2500 series
PIXMA MG2900 series
PIXMA MG3000 series
PIXMA TS3100 series
PIXMA TS3500 series
PIXMA MG3600 series
PIXMA TS3700 series
PIXMA TR4500 series
PIXMA TR4700 series
PIXMA MB5450
PIXMA MG5620 series
PIXMA MG5700 series
PIXMA MG6600 series
PIXMA MG6800 series
PIXMA TR7000 series
PIXMA TR7500 series
PIXMA MG7500 series
PIXMA TS7700 series
PIXMA TR7800 series
PIXMA TS8050 Without cnijfilter2AUR printing will fail with a filter error or you might get "Rendering Completed" and nothing will print
PIXMA MG8200 series
PIXMA TR8500 series
PIXMA MG2400 series cnijfilter-mg2400seriesAUR
PIXMA MG4200 series cnijfilter-mg4200AUR Avoid the web interface when adding the printer as it will not find the PPD file.
PIXMA TR8600 series canon-tr8600-seriesAUR
PIXMA TS9020 canon-ts9020AUR
Printer Driver/filter Notes

Some Canon printers will use a similar setup to the iP4500, so consider modifying the cnijfilter-ip4500AUR package for other, similar printers.

UFRII

Many LBP, iR, and MF printers use a protocol that has had several names over the years: UFR II, UFR II LT, LIPSLX. There are multiple packages for these printers in AUR, and at least the imageCLASS MF4570dn is reported to only work with the older v3.70 version. The i-SENSYS MF633C is confirmed to work with the 6.00 version.

ufrii-printAUR v6.00: uses latest version of Canon provided binaries (extracted from the official .deb package from Canon)

cnrdrvcups-lbAUR v 5.00: latest version built from source

cndrvcups-lbAUR 3.70 and cndrvcups-common-lbAUR 4.10: older version built from source

cndrvcups-lb-binAUR v3.70: uses Canon provided binaries with location/config adjustments to make them work on Arch Linux

cndrvcups-ltAUR v5.00: uses Canon provided binaries for other printers (e.g. LBP6030).

CARPS

Some of Canon's printers use Canon's proprietary CARPS (Canon Advanced Raster Printing System) 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-gitAUR. The project's GitHub page includes a list of working printers.

USB over IP (BJNP)

Some Canon printers use Canon's proprietary USB over IP BJNP protocol to communicate over the network. There is a CUPS backend for this, which is available as cups-bjnpAUR.

cnijfilter

Some printers using the cnijfilter drivers support the cnijnet protocol. To find the printer URI run 

$ cnijnetprn --search auto

and use the cnijnet:/ URI in the output.

Other driver versions, as is the case for the current version of cnijfilter2AUR, provide the cnijlgmon3 binary to search for available printers. 

$ cnijlgmon3
network cnijbe2://Canon/?port=net&serial=60-12-81-A7-7D-34 "Canon MB2300 series" "Canon-MB2300-series_60-12-81-A7-7D-34"

The printer can be added to cups using the cnijbe2 url and an appropriate .ppd file, which should be shipped with your driver. 

$ lpadmin -p CustomPrinterNameMB2300 -P /usr/share/cups/model/canonmb2300.ppd -v "cnijbe2://Canon/?port=net&serial=60-12-81-A7-7D-34" -E

The argument serial in the cnijbe2 url corresponds to the MAC address of the printer.

IPP Everywhere

For recent Canon printers, like the G7000 series, it can be hard to find a valid driver. However, it is possible to use a driverless installation using IPP Everywhere.

If you have installed avahi, CUPS should be able to detect your printer automatically.

However, if it fails, you can always enter your printer settings manually. In CUPS web interface select Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) and enter the IPP URL of the printer. Then at the driver selection screen selectGeneric > {current_make_and_model} - IPP Everywhere ™.

For the G7000 series the IPP URL is ipp://<printer_ip> or ipps://<printer_ip>.

Dell

Printer Driver/filter Notes
1250C foo2zjs-nightlyAUR The printer may also work with the Xerox Phaser 6000B driver (xerox-phaser-6000-6010AUR).
C1660NW
E515 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 debtapAUR, or use dpkg (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.
E515dw
S1130n dell-unified-driverAUR Driver conflicts with samsung-unified-driver-printerAUR (as dell-unified-driverAUR appears to be based on the Samsung one, and they create several of the same files)
1130
1133
1135n
1815
2145cn
2335dn
2355dn
5330
B1160
B1160w
B1165nfw
B1260dn
B1265dfw
B1265dnf
B2365dnf
Printer Driver/filter Notes

Epson

Most models are covered by the official Epson Inkjet Printer Driver for Linux, either epson-inkjet-printer-escprAUR or epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2AUR, which are sets of CUPS drivers for printers using the ESC/P-R printer control language.

Drivers and/or notes for other specific Epson printer models:

Printer Driver/filter Notes
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.
LP-S5000 This printer requires a custom driver from Avasys.
TX125 epson-inkjet-printer-n10-nx127AUR
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

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Reason: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD. (Discuss in Talk:CUPS/Printer-specific problems)

"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. 

$ ./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.

Adding missing paper sizes

Some of the PPD files in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2AUR are missing paper size definitions for media that is supported by the printers and the filter. It is relatively straightforward to add the missing media types to the PPD files.

To begin, download the PKGBUILD for the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2AUR package, either with an AUR helper or from a snapshot tarball. Once in the directory with the PKGBUILD, download and extract the source of the package by running makepkg --nobuild.

Change directory to src/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-$PKGVER. Open the file src/optBase.h in a text editor for reference.

Identify the PPD used by your printer in the ppd directory. For example, a Workforce 7710 printer uses Epson-WF-7710_Series-epson-escpr2-en.ppd. Let us call it your_ppd_filename. Convert the relevant PPD to a PPD compiler source file using the ppdi utility from the cups package. 

$ ppdi -o your_ppd_filename.drv ppd/your_ppd_filename.ppd

Open the newly-created your_ppd_filename.drv in a text editor. Identify the section of the file with a lot of lines starting with CustomMedia. Duplicate one such line to modify. For example: 

CustomMedia "Legal/US Legal" 612.00 1008.00 8.40 8.40 8.40 8.40 "<</PageSize[612.00 1008.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" "<</PageRegion[612.00 1008.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"

The pair of numbers 612.00 1008.00 represents the width and height of the paper in inches, multiplied by 72. Replace all three instances of these numbers with the dimensions of the paper you want to add. For example to add 11"x17" paper, replace the numbers with 792.00 1224.00.

The string "Legal/US Legal" identifies the paper. On the left side of the slash, Legal is a magic identifier that the filter uses to identify the paper size. Replace it with the one you want to use. Refer to the mediaSizeData array in optBase.h for a list of possible values. The string to the right of the slash can be set to any human-readable value.

If you want to enable borderless printing for a paper size, prefix the magic identifier string you just found with the letter T. So Letter would become TLetter. Additionally, change the four numbers 8.40 8.40 8.40 8.40 to 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00.

For example, I was able to add 11x17 paper to the PPD for a Workforce 7710 by adding the following lines: 

CustomMedia "USB/US B(11x17 in)" 792.00 1224.00 8.40 8.40 8.40 8.40 "<</PageSize[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" "<</PageRegion[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
CustomMedia "TUSB/US B(11x17 in) (Borderless)" 792.00 1224.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 "<</PageSize[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" "<</PageRegion[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"

Once you have added your custom size, recompile your_ppd_filename.drv into a PPD file with ppdc (also from cups): 

$ ppdc your_ppd_filename.drv

This will create a ppd file in the ppd directory with a file name derived from the PCFileName parameter in your_ppd_filename.drv. You can test this file by uploading it to the CUPS web interface, or install it permanently by overwriting the original PPD file and making the package with makepkg.

HP

Most HP printers will use hplip, see also CUPS/Troubleshooting#HP issues.

Some may use hpojAUR, while for multifunction laser printers hpuldAUR might be required. Some laser printers are also supported by foo2zjs-nightlyAUR.

Notice that if lpinfo -m tells you that the driver "requires proprietary plugin", you need to install hplip-pluginAUR.

Printer Driver/filter Notes
DeskJet 710C pnm2ppaAUR
DeskJet 712C
DeskJet 720C
DeskJet 722C
DeskJet 820se
DeskJet 820Cxi
DeskJet 1000Cse
DeskJet 1000Cxi
LaserJet MFP M433 hpuldAUR
LaserJet MFP M436
LaserJet MFP M72625 72630
Laser 10x Series
Laser MFP 13x Series
Color Laser 15x Series
Color Laser MFP 17x Series
Printer Driver/filter Notes

HPLIP

Note:
  • As of hplip v3.17.11, hpijs is no longer available. If you have printers using hpijs they will fail to print. You must modify them and select the new hpcups driver instead.
  • Since at least with hplip v3.22.10, hp-setup crashes when it uses hpfax:// to access a printer, with the message Unable to communicate with the device. Please check the device and try again. This is likely due to the missing hplip-pluginAUR, but can be bypassed by disabling fax support on the printer itself.

hplip provides drivers for HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, Photosmart, Business Inkjet, and some LaserJet printers, and also provides an easy to use setup tool. See https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/index for the list of supported printers.

hplip requires python-pyqt5 to run the GUI qt frontend. hp-setup requires CUPS to be installed and cups.service to be started to save the printer. hp-setup also requires the lsusb software, which is provided by the usbutils package.

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/.

If your printer is listed as requiring a binary plugin, install the hplip-pluginAUR package from AUR. If the binary plugin hplip-pluginAUR is a requirement you will need to start the cups.service before the PPD is recognized by hplip. If that does not work, reboot and log in with the printer off. Then switch it on and run a test print.

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 (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.

HPULD

See Debian:CUPSPrintQueues#hpuld for more information.

The package hpuldAUR collects the sparse "HP + ULD" packages into one single package.

foo2zjs

foo2zjs supports some HP LaserJet printers. As of June 2018 the hplip package interferes with foo2zjs-nightlyAUR, as described at this forum post and FS#58815.

Konica Minolta

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

foo2zjs

#foo2zjs, mentioned above for supporting some HP printers, also support some Minolta printers.

Lexmark

Note that most Lexmark printers are now supported by CUPS without needing further installation. See also SANE/Scanner-specific problems#Lexmark for Lexmark scanners issues.

Utilities

Lexmark provides a utility called lexijtools with the drivers.

Custom drivers

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

The drivers will need to be downloaded[dead link 2022-09-17 ⓘ] 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

Ricoh

Install openprinting-ppds-pxlmono-ricohAUR if your device is black and white, or openprinting-ppds-pxlcolor-ricohAUR if it is color. Note that Ricoh copiers are sometimes branded as Savin, Gestetner, Lanier, Rex-Rotary, Nashuatec, and/or IKON. So, if you have a device bearing one of these brands, it may be supported by these drivers as well.

SG or GX series printers requiring RPCS drivers may be suppported by ricoh-rpcs-cups-binAUR, which provides PPDs and needed filter programs found on the Japanese Ricoh website.

Printer Driver/filter Notes
IPSiO GX e3300 ricoh-rpcs-cups-binAUR As the Japanese products seem to be called IPSiO instead of Aficio, products not listed here could still work with specific printer models.
IPSiO GX e5500
IPSiO SG 2010L
IPSiO SG 2100
IPSiO SG 3100
IPSiO SG 3100SF
IPSiO SG 7100
SG 2200
SG 2300
SG 3100KE
SG 3120SF
SG 3120B SF
SG 3200
SG 3300
SG 5100
SG 5100FT
SG 5200
SG 5200FT
SG 7200
213W Generic PCL Laser Obtain a WPS code by holding down the Wi-Fi button for 2 seconds, then hitting the stop/start button.
Printer Driver/filter Notes

Samsung

Since 2016, or 2017, Samsung is no longer in the printers/scanners business. As of 2019, HP partially support some of Samsung printers/scanners. Before 2016, Samsung was a major player. Which is why there are still many Samsung machines around. In addition, Linux, and cups, keep evolving. The bottom line of all this is that supporting Samsung products is at a flux.

A major site for information about Samsung printers/scanners is Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository. Despite its name, it is not affiliated by Samsung (HP). Neither it is devoted only to samsung-unified-driverAUR. Yet the actual drivers suggested are the closed source from Samsung (HP). samsung-unified-driver, on the other hand, also encompass Windows and Mac. It might be the first stop to get a driver for a Samsung printer and scanner as it, or was, claim to support practically every one of these. Note that samsung-unified-driver includes software that can stand on its own, not tied to cups. If you can not get the printer to work with cups, you might try this route.

That said, there are more options. An overview is at alternatives.

  • For Samsung Printer Language, there is splix. For a list of models that are supported, see its home page. Other SPL Samsung printers, even though not in that list, might work with splix.
  • QPDL (Quick Page Description Language) printers, some of which are supported by splix, are also supported by by foo2qpdl, provided by the #foo2zjs package. A list of known to work models is here.

splix and foo2zjs are free software.

You should also note that many Samsung printers support PostScript. Chances are that it will work with CUPS generic postscript printer, especially if it is only black & white and only printer, without a scanner added to it. Generic driver may be missing functionality or limited, for example in their support for duplex, color control, and resolution settings, and print quality may be lower.

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 3020 xerox-phaser-3020AUR Also supports Phaser 3052, 3117, 3140, 3155, 3160, 3200MFP, 3250, 3260, 3300MFP, 3320, 3435, 3600, 6110MFP, WorkCentre 3025, 3210, 3215, 3220, 3225, 3315, 3325, 3550, 4118, PE120, PE220, FaxCentre 2218.
Phaser 3100MFP Install Xerox's driver See #Phaser 3100MFP for more instructions.
Phaser 6115MFP foomatic
Phaser 6121MFP foomatic
Xerox Workcentre 3119 splix Since Samsung SCX-4200 is the rebranded Xerox 3119, splix package works for both
Printer Driver/filter Notes

Custom drivers

Phaser 3100MFP

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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: lib32-libpng12, lib32-zlib, lib32-libjpeg6-turbo, lib32-libcups, lib32-libxext, lib32-libx11, lib32-gcc-libs, lib32-libstdc++5AUR

For the scanner, create an /etc/sane.d directory if it does not already exist, because it is needed 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 6125N

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FujiXerox does not support Linux on this model. 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
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