A small tip for Brother printers

mbevks

Every time I get a new Brother printer, I download the driver from their website and then spend an hour how to get the printer to work on my system (Solus Budgie). Every time I have to re-learn the same thing: When entering the printer IP Address, you need to omit the 0's. For example, if the printer says its IP Address is 192.168.001.256, you need to enter 192.168.1.256. I don't know why it works this way but it does. Hopefully this message will be around in a few years when I have to re-learn this all over again or when someone else runs into the same issue.

BuzzPCSOS

mbevks Interesting tip and worth keeping a note of. The IP without the zeros looks like a proper IP. How did you get the longer number?

brent

mbevks Every time I get a new Brother printer, I download the driver from their website and then spend an hour how to get the printer to work on my system (Solus Budgie). Every time I have to re-learn the same thing: When entering the printer IP Address, you need to omit the 0's. For example, if the printer says its IP Address is 192.168.001.256, you need to enter 192.168.1.256.

I've done that horrible Brother-written car-wreck CLI-install a few times but I've never had this IP anomaly.
On the other hand I've had the brother script ask me actually name my model manually which it will reject about 3 times until I give it what it wants ie if my model is officiallyHL-L2315DW, in the script will reject variations of this til I get it mega-truncated like hll2315 wih an L and a DW and a dash omitted etc. Silliness.
Since I never got your IP anomaly and you never got my renaming anomaly I guess the pro-tip becomes a Brother Driver install is like a box of chocolates....

mbevks

BuzzPCSOS When you ask the printer to show you its IP address, it gives the longer one. Not sure why. But that's been true of several different models. I've always used MFC laser printers.

diagnostics0

My Brother printer/copier/scanner is nice enough to work after I plug it in and let the system install the drivers.