Install Brother HL-2300D on Ubuntu Server 16.10
Have Brother HL-2300D printer which I wanted to hook up to my server so that I can do wireless printing. I pulled down the driver from here:
And was able to install it on my laptop running Mint with no problem. However, when I tried to install it on the server, I ran into a few issues and I thought I had worked through most of them. I had to install lpr and cups since they weren't there so that I could run the installer.
After the installer runs, it tries to print a test page (running off usb, mind you): lpr -P HLL2300D /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
The test print file definitely exists. However the output of lpc status is:
HLL2300D:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
cannot examine spool directory
Which is where I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
1 Answer
Ran tasksel from apt-get to install print server.
sudo apt-get install print-server^Then ran the driver installer mentioned in the question.
