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How to Install a Brother HL-2270DW Laser Printer on Arch Linux ARM and Raspberry Pi 4B?

I can rarely find a solution to Arch Linux ARM 4.19 integration and implementation issues. This is a self-answered question for future reference. I am sharing my solution in the answer below.

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The current Arch Linux ARM version does not include an install of CUPS that is used to run and manage the network printers. Use pacman as below to install the original CUPS and include PDF printers:

sudo pacman -S cups cups-pdf

Enable and start the cups services using the following commands.

systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd 
systemctl start org.cups.cupsd

Navigate to your build directory, a place where you can sandbox your code and download files. Execute the following commands to download and build the Brother's printers driver.

git clone https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser.git
cd brlaser
cmake .
make
sudo make install

You should now be able to start the CUPS interface by pasting localhost:631 into you browser, similar to the illustration below.

CUPS User Interface in Browser

Click on the Administration Tab then click on Add Printer on the following page. A list of printers and virtual printers should appear with your printer in the list, as illustrated below.

My Discovered Printer

In my case after clicking the Continue button on the list page, my printer driver was listed at the top as illustrated below.

Illustration of brlaser drivers with default selected

I left all the default option and just clicked the Continue buttons. Once configuration completed, the printer information looks like the following:

Brother HL-2270DW Laser Printer Information

The other models also supported by this solution are:

DCP-1510 series, DCP-1600 series, DCP-7030, DCP-7040, DCP-7055, DCP-7055W, DCP-7060D, DCP-7065DN, DCP-7080, DCP-L2500D series, DCP-L2520D series, DCP-L2540DW series, HL-1110 series, HL-1200 series, HL-2030 series, HL-2140 series, HL-2220 series, HL-2270DW series, HL-5030 series, HL-L2300D series, HL-L2320D series, HL-L2340D series, HL-L2360D series, MFC-1910W, MFC-7240, MFC-7360N, MFC-7365DN, MFC-7840W, MFC-L2710DW series, Lenovo M7605D

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  • I tried this on a Rpi4 running Manjaro (I know...it is not Arch), and got the following error: CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:94 (message): <cups/raster.h> header not found. Are the CUPS development packages installed? Did you get this error? What other packages (besides cups and cups-pdf) did you install first to satisfy the CUPS dependencies?
    – Rsync
    Commented Dec 17, 2019 at 18:40
  • The above comment concerns the brlaser portion of your post.
    – Rsync
    Commented Dec 17, 2019 at 18:45
  • Since this brlaser is only a portion of what I installed on my ALARM system, I'm not sure if any of these other packages might have been a dependency (some I doubt are relevant). I've pasted those below that I installed that might help with your problem and removed the apps like Chromium and Thunderbird, that I installed from this list. pacman -S crda fuse-exfat i2c-tools nm-connection-editor network-manager-applet networkmanager numlockx patch wpa_supplicant wireless_tools pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth bluez-utils libmm-glib modemmanager cups cups-pdf libvncserver
    – Frank Gould
    Commented Dec 19, 2019 at 14:38
  • @Rsync Check the 'brlaser' source repo. They suggest libcups2-dev, libcupsimage2-dev or similar
    – Zachary Vance
    Commented Apr 19, 2020 at 4:37

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