Brother printer MFC-J497DW

[OldMac]

Trying to get the above printer working with CUPS. Brother says any driver with generic Postscript/PCL should work. I've tried several gutenprint drivers with no exact match. The scanner works.

Current connection:

socket://192.168.1.66:9100

I get the following cups error_log when printing cups test page:

 CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother_MFC-J497DW-Gray..\' already exists

[Job 8] The printer is not responding.

The access_log says:

"POST /printers/bro HTTP/1.1" 200 408 Print-Job successful-ok

The printer lights up and says "receiving data" and cups shows the job completed but nothing prints and printer goes back to sleep.

I've tried several different configurations ie.. ipp, ipps, http, https and most of the gutenprint drivers. seems like I'm close but I'm out of ideas.

 

[sko]

Pretty much all networked brother printers are capable of hp *jet emulation, i.e. they can be used with generic hp laser/colorjet PCL drivers. Other than that, it may also be capable of BRscript.
Maybe check the web interface of the printer for settings regarding HP *jet or BRScript (and ipp if you're at it - on some printer models it is disabled by default)

 

[scottro]

I'm going to again spam my own page. It's for a different model Brother but should work. https://srobb.net/cliscanprint.html

If you're just printing pdfs you can often just use netcat and leave cups out of it.

nc 192.168.1.66 9100 < myfile.pdf

 

[Maturin]

Brother says any driver with generic Postscript/PCL should work.

If a printer can Postscript you don't need CUPS.
But I cannot tell if your model can PS.
And as scottro mentions, if it can PS and is not over 40 years old it's almost certain it can understand PDF, too.

 

[shepper]

Brother says any driver with generic Postscript/PCL should work

Can you share where you got this info? Websearches for MFC-J497 and linux indicate 32bit compatility drivers need to be installed. Personally, I'm skeptical that PS/PCL is supported. Brothers low end printers tend to be gdi. That said, what I found at https://www.brother-usa.com/products/mfcj497dw#specification indicates Airprint support.

https://davidandrzejewski.com/2015/12/26/make-any-printer-airprint-compatible-on-freebsd/

 

[scottro]

For the the heck of it, it might be worth trying the anywhere driver. You could try installing the printer with

lpadmin -p BrotherMFC -E -v ipp://192.168.1.66/ipp/print -m everywhere

The BrotherMFC is a name I chose, you can use whatever you want. You may need sudo or doas for the lpadmn command

 

[CeXP1917]

lpadmin -p BrotherMFC -E -v ipp://192.168.1.66/ipp/print -m everywhere

and sometimes printing need this:

lpadmin -p BrotherMFC -o pdftopsrenderer-default=gs