HL-1212WR Printer Drivers on Red-Hat Linux Based OSes Easy Guide

March 16, 2017 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist | Filed in: Tutorial.

Printer Brother HL-1212W/HL-1212WE/HL-1212WR Quick Start for Red-Hat Linux

You are Welcome! The Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How to Install the Brother HL-1212W/HL-1212WE/HL-1212WR 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-1212W/HL-1212WE/HL-1212WR Driver Installation procedure is Valid also for:

CentOS
Oracle Linux
Scientific Linux

Installing Brother HL-1212W/HL-1212WE/HL-1212WR Printer Drivers on Red-Hat Linux - Featured

Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
Download the Brother Printer HL-1212W/HL-1212WE/HL-1212WR Drivers Installer for Red-Hat Linux

Brother Printer .gz Installer

Brother Printer Linux Driver Installer.

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 .
```
Double-Click on Archive Extract into /tmp

Or from Command Line:
```
gunzip -c $HOME/Downloads/linux-brprinter-installer*.gz > /tmp/linux-brprinter-installer
```
Give Execution Permission
```
sudo chmod +x linux-brprinter-installer*
```
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
Installing Brother Printer Drivers
```
sudo ./linux-brprinter-installer*
```
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”!
- For a Network Shared Connection Setup Go to: http://localhost:631/printers/
  Select the Printer
  Select “Modify Printer”
  Enter Your sudo User Name & Pass
  Select the Protocol and Continue…
  For Help see Instructions on:
  http://localhost:631/help/network.html
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