Brother Printer Drivers and Ubuntu Linux 64 Bit

December 2, 2009 at 9:40 · Tags: , , , ,

Ubuntu is born with packages for Brother printers.

The following packages is available:

brother-cups-wrapper-ac – Cups Wrapper drivers for ac brother printers
brother-cups-wrapper-bh7 – Cups Wrapper drivers for bh7 brother printers
brother-cups-wrapper-common – Common files for Brother cups wrapper packages
brother-cups-wrapper-extra – Cups Wrapper drivers for extra brother printers
brother-cups-wrapper-laser – Cups Wrapper drivers for laser brother printers
brother-cups-wrapper-laser1 – Cups Wrapper drivers for laser1 brother printers
brother-cups-wrapper-mfc9420cn – Cups Wrapper drivers for mfc9420cn brother printers
brother-lpr-drivers-ac – LPR drivers for ac brother printers
brother-lpr-drivers-bh7 – LPR drivers for bh7 brother printers
brother-lpr-drivers-common – Common files for brother-lpr-drivers packages
brother-lpr-drivers-extra – LPR drivers for extra brother printers
brother-lpr-drivers-laser – LPR drivers for laser brother printers
brother-lpr-drivers-laser1 – LPR drivers for laser1 brother printers
brother-lpr-drivers-mfc9420cn- LPR driver for mfc9420cn brother printer

brother-cups-wrapper contains the 5 existing cups wrapper from Brother, under a PLG License.

brother-lpr-drivers contains all the LPR drivers, distributed under the Brother Software Open License Agreement

The -extra package contains all drivers that does not have a opensource tarballs. These drivers use the same binary cups wrapper as bh7 package.

The -common package contains shared files between various packages. -common only prevent conflicts for bh7/extra packages files and laser/laser1.

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