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Select 'Use the new PPD' and click Forward Select 'Brother MFC8860DN for CUPS' and click Forward

Select 'Brother (recommended)' and click Forward The following NEW packages will be installed: a2ps brother-cups-wrapper-laser brother-lpr-drivers-common brother-lpr-drivers-laser libc6-i386 psutilsģ] In printer properties click Change next to 'Make and Model' So through days of searching and hours of trial and error and many fresh cloned virtualbox vms to make sure I was starting from scratch each time I figured out that you can just do the following:ġ] Plug printer into usb and let mint set up printerĬode: Select all sudo apt-get install brother-lpr-drivers-laser brother-cups-wrapper-laser It does come with an uninstall script, but I guess I don't know how to be sure the uninstall script truly does remove all packages and settings. And I like to be able to easily remove anything I install, but I don't have the command line skills just yet to know how to easily and accurately remove a group of packages installed at the same time via a script, which is what the Driver Install Tool does. However, it installs hundreds of packages totaling hundreds of MB and to me is a hammer approach, where I prefer to find a scalpel solution. Then I installed the Driver Install Tool from the page above and this does fix the problem. When I plug the printer into my computer it sets itself up just fine and will print basic stuff like web pages etc, but cannot reliably print PDFs and other documents.įirst I tried installing just the LPR printer driver (deb package) and then CUPSwrapper printer driver (deb package) from this page:

I am running Mint 19.3 Cinnamon and have a Brother HL-L2300D printer connected via USB. The following could work for most Brother printers. Just posting this in case it helps someone.