After more than a year of struggling with my Brother printer, I finally got it to print flawlessly. I will kindly refrain from getting into the drama, and just write a short tutorial to set it up with CUPS in Arch Linux.
First, install the cups package, as well as the Brother driver
packages in the AUR:
brother-cups-wrapper-acbrother-cups-wrapper-commonbrother-lpr-drivers-acbrother-lpr-drivers-common
Then, enable the cups daemon with systemd, and then start it:
Now go into your favorite web browser, and go to http://localhost:631,
to find the CUPS web admin interface. From here, just add a new printer
using the web form buttons. When adding the printer, use the LPR/LPD
protocol, as follows:
and use the appropriate IP address that your printer has on the network. For the driver, select the CUPS driver for the MFC-9840CDW model (the various Brother drivers will only appear after installing the Brother driver packages from the AUR).
Done!
