I am using Zorin 16.3. If I have omitted any info please let me know.
I have just installed the Brother printer drivers from the Brother website for the Brother printer model MFC-L8600: my brother printer model
everything went well until I got to the question of do you want to specify the device URI? with 2 options, one for USB users choose no and for network users choose yes and device URI number, I unfortunately chose no. If I remember correctly choosing yes gives you a numbered list from which you can enter your IP address. I didn't remember this choice and now the printer is not printing anything, it is hanging at a test page print. I finished the installation with no problems except for the above.
How can I revert the installation of the Brother printer drivers so I can choose the correct choice under the installation tool instructions?
Or is there another way?
Thanks for any insight...
@ERZ thank you for your reply. One of my questions above was how to uninstall the drivers so I can go through the installation again. I don't know yet how to uninstall the Brother printer drivers.
@emit thanks for your help. Before I remove the printer, I have the following questions:
I am used to entering the IP address for the printer. What is an URI? what do I enter there when I get to the Select Device ---- Enter URI.
Second question:
do you think that if I remove the printer under Settings --- Printers, will it remove the .deb packages I installed from the Brother website or how do I go about removing those packages so I can run the install again?
I am still learning....
I am going to mark this as solved. Thank you @emit. You led me in the right direction. I will later come back and post what I did to solve it. Got to go.
thanks for your help and that link, I have it bookmarked now. As it turned out the solution was much simpler that I though. Below I will explain what I did.
As it turned out, I did not remove the printer or any of the drivers. Your printer pictures reminded me of being able to change settings on the printer I had already installed. I went back to Printers and right clicked on the additional printer settings button and then right clicked on the printer icon that showed up. Under properties I changed the settings under Settings and Device URI, hit the change button and
went down under Network Printer on left, clicked the ipp option and filled out the URI with:
ipp://<IP address of printer>:631/binary_p1
where you enter your IP address after the ipp:// part and before :631
after I did that, my printer drivers where recognized and I was able to print a test page with good results.
But next time, I will know to answer yes when the Brother Printer installer tool asks if I want use the network option. Thanks again for your help, and I hope this post is not as clear as mud
