I have this printer in wifi but it will not print it shows up in libreoffice writer “mfc-j430w” but when I hit print nothing happens
Hi @Batmanxx!
To see what the actual error is, we need to look at the CUPS logs. The full instructions are found here in the Arch Wiki - CUPS Troubleshooting - Debug Log. Reproducing those instructions here:
- Open the cups configuration using the command
sudo nano /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
and edit the LogLevel as below:
LogLevel debug
(Then save and exit the file) - Try running a print job.
- View the logs using the following command:
tail -n 100 -f /var/log/cups/error_log
. - Paste the error messages here so that we can check
Please let me know if you have any difficulty following these instructions
Please where on the page should I enter LogLevel debug and then save, also how do you save the page?
I have teamviwer installed if you can be so kind to help if possible
Replace LogLevel warn
with LogLevel debug
and save
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in your message.
Welcome to RebornOS.
Did you add your Brother printer automatically? In the RebornOS repository we have a compiled driver for your model (we made it at the request of another user, I don’t remember his name. The driver is brother-mfc-j430w. You can install it from the terminal, with:
sudo pacman -S brother-mfc-j430w
About this driver, a user comments the following:
“To print from my system, I had to add the printer in CUPS as a ‘LPD/LPR Host or Printer’, and my connection is ‘lpd://PRINTER_IP/BINARY_P1’ substituting my printer’s ip address for PRINTER_IP. Hope this helps someone else.”
Try first without modifying anything, to see what happens.
Remember that you can access the printer installation from your web browser. To do this, enter the following as the address:
localhost:631
I personally have no experience with Brother printers, but we try to help where possible.
Greetings and take care!
I did insert sudo pacman -S brother-mfc-j430w and go on localhost:631 at the moment it is still not printing this are the result i got from localhost:631