How to Set Up Printing for Brother MFC L2710DW on (Arch) Linux

November 21, 2024

Tags: linux arch printer

As of 2024 there was a vulnerability found in CUPS so instead of running systemctl enable cups.service you should probably just explicitly start it with systemctl start cups.service when you need to print.

Installation

Find the packages for your distro if not on Arch

The driver will either need to be obtained via the manufacturer or check to see if your package repositories have it anywhere, AUR has the driver for my printer

# Install Cups
$ pacman -S cups

# Install GhostScript
$ pacman -S ghostscript

# Install Drivers for Brother MFC L2710DW
## The drivers on Arch is in the AUR
$ paru MFC-L2710DW

# Start Cups
$ systemctl start cups.service

Configuration

Note: The section mentioned in the Arch Wiki is slightly different now