I have a Brother DCP T500W that just recently started randomly disconnecting .... restarting or start up does not reinstall it however when I start up each morning the printer is there in the task bar .... I searched the board for Printer Disconnects and got nothing .... searched Printer and got a bunch of posts from soup to nuts and quite honestly after reading the first 15 posts I don't have time to decipher all the printer posts ....
I managed to reinstall it somehow by playing around with the various settings that kept popping up during my trouble shooting .... just lucky I guess
Anyway my question is what I found is that I am using 3.0 CUPS apt I guess to run my printer .... which by the way is a WiFi printer .... is there a better program to use ?????? I see CUPS is not supported any more .... also why are my Brother drivers not being used ..... would that eliminate the problem ....
Where in the world did you find drivers for Brother written in .deb ..... I searched the Brother website and only saw drivers in .exe ...... great find .... you made my day .... thank you .... I bookmarked that website in my browser ....
I struggled, too, actually. On their website, it did not seem to like your model number.
So, I then turned to google - and it led to the right place. Very strange...
Don't feel bad that happens to me every time I go to their site ..... I usually have to start out looking at the pictures and choosing from one of them .... that is why I'm a bit leery about downloading drivers and updates from them as I downloaded a firmware from the back about 2 years ago and it killed my original extra's program for all kinds of customization's and they have now discontinued that program ..... what a bummer ...
By the way you did choose the correct page for me to download from I'm going to wait until the next time it disconnects before I make any changes .... but now I have a back up plan ....
