Printer Brother HL-1210W/HL-1210WE/HL-1210WR Quick Start for Red-Hat Linux
You are Welcome! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install the Brother HL-1210W/HL-1210WE/HL-1210WR Printer Drivers for Red-Hat Linux Based Desktops.
Brother has predisposed a Printers Driver Installer for Linux that will Provide Automatically to Download and Install the needed Dependencies.
So the Brother HL-1210W/HL-1210WE/HL-1210WR Driver Installation procedure is Valid also for:
- CentOS
- Oracle Linux
- Scientific Linux
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Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
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Download the Brother Printer HL-1210W/HL-1210WE/HL-1210WR Drivers Installer for Red-Hat Linux
First, Choose Driver Install Tool
Then Select the Language: English or English (China)
The Driver Installation Script is the Same for All Brother Printers! -
Access the Target location
(Usually Downloads go in the Home folder or when Downloaded with Firefox may be into the Temporary directory /tmp/mozilla*)cd ~/Downloads
Or when downloaded with Firefox maybe:
cd /tmp/mozilla*
To Verify that it’s there List the contents with:
ls .
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Double-Click on Archive Extract into /tmp
Or from Command Line:
gunzip -c $HOME/Downloads/linux-brprinter-installer*.gz > /tmp/linux-brprinter-installer
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Give Execution Permission.
chmod +x linux-brprinter-installer*
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
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Installing Brother Printer Drivers
sudo ./linux-brprinter-installer*
In case of “CUPS is not installed” issue then to see How to Install it Here.
When Prompted Insert Your Brother Printer Model!
Then the Installer will Provide Automatically to Download and Install the Printer and potentially also the Scanner Drivers…
When prompted about a Device URI:- For USB Simply Enter “n”!
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For a Network Shared Connection Setup Go to: http://localhost:631/printers/
Select the Printer
Select “Modify Printer”
Enter Your sudo Username & Pass
Select the Protocol and Continue…
For Help see Instructions on:
http://localhost:631/help/network.html
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