Hardware/Brother

Troubleshooting

Brother Laser Printer Setup

The following three packages have been shown to work to at get a Brother model HL-2340D laser printer working.

# Add Brother printer drivers
services.printing.drivers = [
  pkgs.brlaser
  pkgs.brgenml1lpr
  pkgs.brgenml1cupswrapper
];

Note that some report

pkgs.brlaser

being sufficient, while other Brother laser owners have needed all three packages.

With proper paper setting, printout is shifted or cropped

This may happen because of the way the brother drivers are made, it seems there is a bug in the handling of paper type, and it does not only affect NixOS.

To see if this problem affects you, look at the `rc` file for your printer, in the package for your drivers.

/nix/store/.../opt/brother/Printers/[model]/inf/br[model]rc

There will be a line as such:

PaperType=A4

The problem can be inverted depending on the driver, some will default to A4 and some to Letter.

One way this can be worked-around is by patching the rc file at build time. This will not allow switching paper type at runtime.

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