CUPS/Printer-specific problems

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This article contains printer or manufacturer-specific instructions for CUPS. See OpenPrinting if your printer is not already listed here, or if none of the listed drivers work.

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Brother

Note: Some printer models can be found in several entries because there are several packages or drivers for them.

Drivers for several models:

Printers	Driver/filter	Notes
DCP-1510 series (DCP-1510, DCP-1510r, DCP-1511, DCP-1512, DCP-1512r, DCP-1518)	brother-dcp1510^AUR
DCP-7010, DCP-7020, DCP-7025, DCP-8060, DCP-8065DN, FAX-2820, FAX-2920, HL-2030, HL-2040, HL-2070N, HL-5240, HL-5250DN, HL-5270DN, HL-5280DW, MFC-7220, MFC-7225N, MFC-7420, MFC-7820N, MFC-8460N, MFC-8660DN, MFC-8860DN, MFC-8870DW	brother-cups-wrapper-laser^AUR
HL-4040CN, HL-4040CDN, HL-4050CDN, HL-4070CDW, MFC-9440CN, MFC-9450CDN, MFC-9840CDW, DCP-9040CN, DCP-9042CDN, DCP-9045CDN	brother-cups-wrapper-ac^AUR
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-1919NW, MFC-7240, MFC-7360N, MFC-7365DN, MFC-7840W, Lenovo M7605D	brlaser^AUR brlaser-git^AUR	Unofficial driver, may be compatible with more models

Drivers for one model:

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
DCP-135C	brother-dcp135c^AUR
DCP-150C	brother-dcp150c^AUR
DCP-L3550CDW	brother-dcpl3550cdw^AUR	Use IPP driver as described here and here.
DCP-7020	foomatic	Or Brother's driver.
DCP-7030	brother-dcp7030^AUR
DCP-7065DN	brother-dcp7065dn^AUR
DCP-J515W	brother-dcp-j515w^AUR
DCP-J4110DW	brother-dcpj4110dw^AUR
FAX-2820	brother-cups-wrapper-laser^AUR
FAX-2840	brother-fax2840^AUR	Or foomatic - works mostly with `hpijs-pcl5e.ppd`. Same as the HL-2170W.
FAX-2940	brother-fax2940^AUR
HL-1110	brlaser-git^AUR	Tested and it works
HL-2030	foomatic	Or brother-hl2030^AUR
HL-2035	foomatic	Should be compatible with any drivers for the HL-2030.
HL-2040	foomatic	Or brother-hl2040^AUR
HL-2130	foomatic (using the HL-2140 driver)	Or hplip
HL-2135W	brother-brgenml1^AUR
HL-2140	foomatic	Or brother-hl2140^AUR
HL-2170W	foomatic	Or Brother's driver.
HL-2230	foomatic	Same as HL-2170W. Select HL-2170W as the driver in CUPS admin when adding a printer.
HL-2250DN	brother-brgenml1^AUR	brother-hl2250dn^AUR is broken?
HL-2270DW	brother-hl2270dw^AUR
HL-2280DW	brother-hl2280dw^AUR
HL-3045CN	Install Brother's driver or brother-hl3040cn^AUR.
HL-3140CW	brother-hl3140cw^AUR	Use IPP and Brother's driver to avoid page-shrinking and endless blank printouts
HL-3150CDW	brother-hl3150cdw^AUR
HL-3170CDW	brother-hl3170cdw^AUR
HL-4150CDN	brother-hl4150cdn^AUR
HL-5140	foomatic	Or Brother's driver.
HL-5340	foomatic	Using the Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint (gutenprint and foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds). Or Brother's driver, which may result in failed prints with postscript errors.
HL-L2300D	brother-hll2300d^AUR	brlaser-git^AUR works better. Using the brother driver, only defaults are honored and print-specific settings are ignored.
HL-L2340DW	brother-hll2340dw^AUR
HL-L2350DW	brother-hll2350dw^AUR
HL-L2360DN	brother-hll2360d^AUR	Or brlaser-git^AUR
HL-L2360DW	brother-hll2360d^AUR	brlaser-git^AUR should works.
HL-L2365DW	brother-hll2360d^AUR	brlaser-git^AUR should works.
HL-L2380DW	brother-hll2380dw^AUR
HL-L2395DW	brother-hll2395dw^AUR	Use the `socket` protocol as described in #Network printers
HL-L3230CDW	brother-hll3230cdw^AUR	Or https://github.com/splitbrain/archlinux-brother-hll3230cdw
HL-L3270CDW	brother-hll3270cdw^AUR	Use the `lpd` protocol as described in #Network printers.
HL-L5100DN	HP LaserJet Foomatic driver	This model will emulate a HP LaserJet. Use the `lpd` protocol as described in #Network printers.
HL-L8360CDW	brother-hll8360cdw-cups-bin^AUR
MFC-420CN	brother-mfc-420cn^AUR
MFC-440CN	brother-mfc-440cn^AUR
MFC-7360N	brother-mfc7360n^AUR	Or brlaser-git^AUR
MFC-7460DN	Gutenprint	Use the Generic PCL 6 Printer wide margin - CUPS+Gutenprint driver, with address `ipp://hostname-or-ip/pcl_p1`.
MFC-7840W	brother-mfc-7840w^AUR	Or brlaser-git^AUR
MFC-9320CW	Install Brother's driver.
MFC-9332CDW	brother-mfc-9332cdw^AUR
MFC-9840CDW	foomatic	Or Brother's driver. This printer also works with the generic PCL-6 driver from the gutenprint package. Use pcl_p1 for the printer's address when using the PCL-6 driver.
MFC-J1300DW	brother-mfc-j1300dw^AUR	Use the `ipp` protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J470DW	brother-mfc-j470dw^AUR	Use the `ipp` protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J4710DW	brother-mfc-j4710dw^AUR
MFC-J480DW	brother-mfc-j480dw^AUR	Use the `ipp` protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J5520DW	brother-mfc-j5520dw^AUR
MFC-J5845DW	brother-mfc-j5845dw^AUR	Use the `ipp` protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-J5910DW	brother-mfc-j5910dw^AUR
MFC-J650DW	Install Brother's driver.
MFC-J885DW	brother-mfc-j885dw^AUR
MFC-J985DW	brother-mfc-j985dw^AUR
MFC-L2700DN	brother-mfc-l2700dn^AUR	Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2700DW	brother-mfc-l2700dw^AUR	Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2710DN	brother-mfc-l2700dn^AUR	Use the ipp protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-L2710DW	brother-mfc-l2710dw^AUR	Use the `lpd` protocol as described in #Network printers.
MFC-L2720DW	brother-mfc-l2720dw^AUR	Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2730DW	brother-mfc-l2730dw^AUR	Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L2740DW	brother-mfc-l2740dw^AUR	Please look also at the comments section of the AUR package page.
MFC-L8600CDW	brother-mfc-l8600cdw^AUR	Please follow the instructions on the AUR page.
QL-500	brother-ql500^AUR
QL-570	brother-ql570^AUR
QL-580N	brother-ql580n^AUR
QL-650TD	brother-ql650td^AUR
QL-700	brother-ql700^AUR
QL-710W	brother-ql710w^AUR
QL-720NW	brother-ql720nw^AUR
QL-1050	brother-ql1050^AUR
QL-1050N	brother-ql1050n^AUR
QL-1060	brother-ql1060n^AUR
QL-1110NWB	brother-ql1110nwb^AUR
TD-2020	brother-td2020^AUR
TD-2120N	brother-td2120n^AUR
TD-2130N	brother-td2130n^AUR
TD-4000	brother-td4000^AUR
TD-4100N	brother-td4100n^AUR
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Network printers

For network printers, use ipp://printer_ip/ipp/port1 as printer address. For some older printers, this might not work. If not, try lpd://printer_ip/BINARY_P1 instead.

Some printers use the socket protocol. For these printers, use socket://printer_ip:9100. For http, use http://printer_ip/POSTSCRIPT_P1.

Custom drivers

Brother provides custom drivers on their website, either in source tarball, rpm, or deb form. Packaging Brother printer drivers covers creating PKGBUILDs from the existing RPM packages.

Note: The source packages might be a better alternative to the rpm packages, provided they contain all the needed files.

Manually installing from the RPM packages

Warning: This should ideally be automated in a PKGBUILD.

Install the rpmextract package, and extract both rpm packages using rpmextract.sh. Extracting both files will create a var and a usr directory - move the contents of both directories into the corresponding root directories.

Run the cups wrapper file in /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper. This should automatically install and configure your brother printer.

For some of the drivers 32 bit libraries may need to be installed from multilib.

Updating the firmware

Install net-snmp and run:

$ snmpwalk -c public $PRINTER_IP | grep -A 1 3.6.1.4.1.2435.2.4.3.99.3.1.6.1.2

At this point, you will have the relevant data to get a valid firmware download link from Brother. The file should look similar to the one below:

request.xml

 <REQUESTINFO>
    <FIRMUPDATETOOLINFO>
        <FIRMCATEGORY>MAIN</FIRMCATEGORY>
        <OS>LINUX</OS>
        <INSPECTMODE>1</INSPECTMODE>
    </FIRMUPDATETOOLINFO>
 
    <FIRMUPDATEINFO>
        <MODELINFO>
            <SELIALNO></SELIALNO>
            <NAME>MFC-9330CDW</NAME>
            <SPEC>0401</SPEC>
            <DRIVER></DRIVER>
            <FIRMINFO>
                <FIRM>
                    <ID>MAIN</ID>
                    <VERSION>R1506121801:4504</VERSION>
                </FIRM>
                <FIRM>
                    <ID>SUB1</ID>
                    <VERSION>1.07</VERSION>
                </FIRM>
                <FIRM>
                    <ID>SUB2</ID>
                    <VERSION>L1505291600</VERSION>
                </FIRM>
            </FIRMINFO>
        </MODELINFO>
        <DRIVERCNT>1</DRIVERCNT>
        <LOGNO>2</LOGNO>
        <ERRBIT></ERRBIT>
        <NEEDRESPONSE>1</NEEDRESPONSE>
    </FIRMUPDATEINFO>
 </REQUESTINFO>

Post this file to Brother:

$ curl -X POST -d @request.xml https://firmverup.brother.co.jp/kne_bh7_update_nt_ssl/ifax2.asmx/fileUpdate -H "Content-Type:text/xml" > response.xml

In response.xml you will find a <PATH> tag that contains the firmware download URL. Next, download the firmware, push it to the printer, and let the printer process it. Before that is done, change the Admin password to something known, it will be used as the user to log into the FTP site (VERY bad practice, do not do this).

$ wget http://update-akamai.brother.co.jp/CS/LZ4266_W.djf
$ ftp $PRINTER_IP|
ftp> bin
ftp> hash
ftp> send LZ4266_W.djf
ftp> bye

With that, the printer will restart, and the latest firmware will be installed and (hopefully) your printing woes will be solved.

Canon

There are many possible drivers for Canon printers. Many Canon printers are supported by Gutenprint and foomatic-db-ppds. Some of Canon's LBP, iR, and MF printers use a driver supporting the UFR II/UFR II LT/LIPSLX protocols, #UFRII . Others use the #CARPS, or #cnijfilter (cnijfilter2^AUR / cnijfilter2-bin^AUR), or Canon CAPT drivers.

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
iP4300	Gutenprint	Or use the TurboPrint driver.
PIXMA G4000 series	Gutenprint	Misidentifies itself as Canon G3010 Series. Use Canon PIXMA G4000 - CUPS+Gutenprint driver instead.
LBP810	Canon CAPT
LBP1120
LBP1210
LBP2900
LBP3000
LBP3010
LBP3018
LBP3050
LBP3100
LBP3108
LBP3150
LBP3200
LBP3210
LBP3250
LBP3300
LBP3310
LBP3500
LBP5000
LBP5050 series
LBP5100
LBP5300
LBP6000
LBP6018
LBP6020
LBP6200
LBP6300
LBP6300n
LBP6310dn
LBP7010C
LBP7018C
LBP7200Cdn (network mode)
LBP7200C series
LBP7210Cdn
LBP9100C
MF216n (network over ldp)	cndrvcups-lb-bin^AUR
MF635Cx
MF4720w
MF4770n
MG4200 series	cnijfilter-mg4200^AUR	Avoid the web interface when adding the printer as it will not find the PPD file.
MB2350	cnijfilter2^AUR cnijfilter2-bin^AUR
MX490
MX492
TR8500 series
TS202
TS8050		Without cnijfilter2^AUR printing will fail with a filter error or you might get "Rendering Completed" and nothing will print
TS9020	canon-ts9020^AUR
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Some Canon printers will use a similar setup to the iP4500, so consider modifying the cnijfilter-ip4500^AUR package for other, similar printers.

UFRII

Many LBP, iR, and MF printers use a protocol that has had several names over the years : UFR II, UFR II LT, LIPSLX . There are multiple packages for these printers in AUR, and atleast the imageCLASS MF4570dn and i-sensys MF633C are reported to only work with the older v3.70 version.

cnrdrvcups-lb^AUR v 5.00 - latest version built from source

cndrvcups-lb^AUR 3.70 and cndrvcups-common-lb^AUR 4.10 : older version built from source

cndrvcups-lb-bin^AUR v3.70 uses canon provided binaries with location/config adjustments to make them work on archlinux

CARPS

Some of Canon's printers use Canon's proprietary CARPS (Canon Advanced Raster Printing System) driver. Rainbow Software have managed to reverse engineer the CARPS data format and have successfully created a CARPS CUPS driver, which is available as carps-cups-git^AUR. The project's GitHub page includes a list of working printers.

USB over IP (BJNP)

Some Canon printers use Canon's proprietary USB over IP BJNP protocol to communicate over the network. There is a CUPS backend for this, which is available as cups-bjnp^AUR.

cnijfilter

Some printers using the cnijfilter drivers support the cnijnet protocol. To find the printer URI run

$ cnijnetprn --search auto

and use the cnijnet:/ URI in the output.

Other driver versions, as is the case for the current version of cnijfilter2^AUR, provide the cnijlgmon3 binary to search for available printers.

$ cnijlgmon3

network cnijbe2://Canon/?port=net&serial=60-12-81-A7-7D-34 "Canon MB2300 series" "Canon-MB2300-series_60-12-81-A7-7D-34"

The printer can be added to cups using the cnijbe2 url and an appropriate .ppd file, which should be shipped with your driver.

$ lpadmin -p CustomPrinterNameMB2300 -P /usr/share/cups/model/canonmb2300.ppd -v "cnijbe2://Canon/?port=net&serial=60-12-81-A7-7D-34" -E

The argument serial in the cnijbe2 url corresponds to the MAC address of the printer.

IPP Everywhere

For recent Canon printers, like the G7000 series, it can be hard to find a valid driver. However, it is possible to use a driverless installation using IPP Everywhere.

If you have installed avahi, CUPS should be able to detect your printer automatically.

However, if it fails, you can always enter your printer settings manually. In CUPS web interface select Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) and enter the IPP URL of the printer. Then at the driver selection screen selectGeneric > {current_make_and_model} - IPP Everywhere ™.

For the G7000 series the IPP URL is ipp://<printer_ip> or ipps://<printer_ip>.

Dell

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
1250C	foo2zjs-nightly^AUR	The printer may also work with the Xerox Phaser 6000B driver.
C1660NW	foo2zjs-nightly^AUR	The printer may also work with the Xerox Phaser 6000B driver.
E515, E515dw	Install Dell's driver.	Both e515dwcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.deb and e515dwlpr-3.2.0-1.i386.deb need to be installed. You could either write a PKGBUILD, use debtap^AUR, or use dpkg (using dpkg is not recommended as the files will not be managed by pacman). The driver works on both the x86_64 and i386 platforms, but may require multilib.
S1130n	dell-unified-driver^AUR	Driver conflicts with samsung-unified-driver-printer (as the dell-unified-driver appears to be based on the Samsung one, and they create several of the same files)
1130
1133
1135n
1815
2145cn
2335dn
2355dn
5330
B1160
B1160w
B1165nfw
B1260dn
B1265dfw
B1265dnf
B2365dnf
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Epson

epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR and epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR are sets of drivers using the Epson Inkjet Printer Driver (ESC/P-R) for Linux.

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
AcuLaser CX11(NF)	epson-alcx11-filter^AUR
AcuLaser C900		This printer uses Epson's driver, with a device URI of 'usb://EPSON/AL-C900', and may need the pipsplus service to be running.
EP-50V	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
EP-879A
EP-880A
EP-881A
ET-2700	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
ET-2750	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
ET-3700	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
ET-3750
ET-3760
ET-4750
ET-4760
EW-M571T	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
EW-M670FT	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
L380	epson-inkjet-printer-201601w^AUR
L382	epson-inkjet-printer-201601w^AUR
L3150	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
L4150
L4160
L6160	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
L6170
L6190
LP-S5000		This printer requires a custom driver from Avasys.
PM-520	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
PX-M5080F
PX-M5081F
PX-M680F
PX-M7070FX
PX-M780F
PX-M781F
PX-M884F
PX-S5080
PX-S7070X
PX-S884
TX125	epson-inkjet-printer-n10-nx127^AUR
WF-3620	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
WF-3720	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
WF-4720
WF-4730
WF-4740
WF-7210
WF-7710
WF-7720
WF-C869R
XP-205 -207	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
XP-446	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
XP-630 Series	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr^AUR
XP-5100	epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR
XP-6000
XP-8500
XP-15000
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Utilities

escputil

escputil is part of the gutenprint package, and performs some utility functions on Epson printers such as nozzle cleaning.

mtink

This is a printer status monitor which enables to get the remaining ink quantity, to print test patterns, to reset printer and to clean nozzle. It use an intuitive graphical user interface.

Stylus-toolbox

This is a GUI using escputil and cups drivers. It supports nearly all USB printer of Epson and displays ink quantity, can clean and align print heads and print test patterns.

Custom drivers

Avasys

Warning: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD.

"Source" code of the driver is available on the avasys website, in Japanese, however it includes a 32 bit binary which will cause problem on 64 bit system.

Install the psutils, bc, libstdc++5 packages (lib32-libstdc++5^AUR on 64bit).
Download the source code of the driver.
Compile and install the driver.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
# make install

If you have any problems on a 64 system, some other lib32 libraries may be required. Please adjust this page if that is the case.

Adding missing paper sizes

Some of the PPD files in epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR are missing paper size definitions for media that is supported by the printers and the filter. It is relatively straightforward to add the missing media types to the PPD files.

To begin, download the PKGBUILD for the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2^AUR package, either with an AUR helper or from a snapshot tarball. Once in the directory with the PKGBUILD, download and extract the source of the package by running makepkg --nobuild.

Change directory to to src/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-$PKGVER. Open the file src/optBase.h in a text editor for reference.

Identify the PPD used by your printer in the ppd directory. For example, a Workforce 7710 printer uses Epson-WF-7710_Series-epson-escpr2-en.ppd. Let us call it your_ppd_filename. Convert the relevant PPD to a PPD compiler source file using the ppdi utility from the cups package.

$ ppdi -o your_ppd_filename.drv ppd/your_ppd_filename.ppd

Open the newly-created your_ppd_filename.drv in a text editor. Identify the section of the file with a lot of lines starting with CustomMedia. Duplicate one such line to modify. For example:

CustomMedia "Legal/US Legal" 612.00 1008.00 8.40 8.40 8.40 8.40 "<</PageSize[612.00 1008.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" "<</PageRegion[612.00 1008.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"

The pair of numbers 612.00 1008.00 represents the width and height of the paper in inches, multiplied by 72. Replace all three instances of these numbers with the dimensions of the paper you want to add. For example to add 11"x17" paper, replace the numbers with 792.00 1224.00.

The string "Legal/US Legal" identifies the paper. On the left side of the slash, Legal is a magic identifier that the filter uses to identify the paper size. Replace it with the one you want to use. Refer to the mediaSizeData array in optBase.h for a list of possible values. The string to the right of the slash can be set to any human-readable value.

If you want to enable borderless printing for a paper size, prefix the magic identifier string you just found with the letter T. So Letter would become TLetter. Additionally, change the four numbers 8.40 8.40 8.40 8.40 to 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00.

For example, I was able to add 11x17 paper to the PPD for a Workforce 7710 by adding the following lines:

CustomMedia "USB/US B(11x17 in)" 792.00 1224.00 8.40 8.40 8.40 8.40 "<</PageSize[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" "<</PageRegion[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
CustomMedia "TUSB/US B(11x17 in) (Borderless)" 792.00 1224.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 "<</PageSize[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" "<</PageRegion[792.00 1224.00]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"

Once you have added your custom size, recompile your_ppd_filename.drv into a PPD file with ppdc (also from cups):

$ ppdc your_ppd_filename.drv

This will create a ppd file in the ppd directory with a file name derived from the PCFileName parameter in your_ppd_filename.drv. You can test this file by uploading it to the CUPS web interface, or install it permanently by overwriting the original PPD file and making the package with makepkg.

HP

Most HP printers will use hplip, some may use hpoj^AUR, while for multifunction laser printers hpuld^AUR might be required. Some laser printers are also supported by foo2zjs-nightly^AUR.

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
DeskJet 710C	pnm2ppa^AUR
DeskJet 712C
DeskJet 720C
DeskJet 722C
DeskJet 820se
DeskJet 820Cxi
DeskJet 1000Cse
DeskJet 1000Cxi
Envy 7800 series	hplip	Have not tried foomatic yet
LaserJet P1606dn	hplip + hplip-plugin^AUR	Or foo2zjs-nightly^AUR, or AirPrint.
LaserJet Pro MFP M126nw	hplip + hplip-plugin^AUR
LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw	hplip	No proprietary drivers as of 2019-04-18
Photosmart 2575	hplip	Or use the hpijs driver in foomatic.
HP LaserJet MFP M433	hpuld^AUR
HP LaserJet MFP M436
HP LaserJet MFP M72625 72630
Laser 10x Series
Laser MFP 13x Series
Color Laser 15x Series
Color Laser MFP 17x Series
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

HPLIP

Note: As of hplip v3.17.11 hpijs is not longer available. If you have printers using hpijs they will fail to print. You must modify them and select the new hpcups driver instead.

hplip provides drivers for HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, Photosmart, Business Inkjet, and some LaserJet printers, and also provides an easy to use setup tool. See https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supported_devices/index for the list of supported printers.

To run the setup tool with the GUI qt frontend:

$ hp-setup -u

To run the setup tool with the command line frontend:

$ hp-setup -i

To set up directly the configuration of a network connected HP printer:

$ hp-setup -i ip_address

To run systray spool manager:

$ hp-systray

To generate a URI for a given ip address:

# hp-makeuri <ip address>

PPD files are in /usr/share/ppd/HP/.

If your printer is listed as requiring a binary plugin, install the hplip-plugin^AUR package from AUR. If the binary plugin hplip-plugin^AUR is a requirement you will need to start the cups.service before the PPD is recognized by hplip.

Note: hplip depends on foomatic-db-engine which prevents the drivers list from appearing when a printer is added to CUPS via the web user interface (following error : "Unable to get list of printer drivers"). Possible workarounds:

Either: Install hplip first, then retrieve the PPD file that matches your printer from /usr/share/ppd/HP/. Next, remove hplip entirely as well as any unnecessary dependencies. Finally, install the printer manually using the CUPS web UI, selecting the PPD file you retrieved, and then re-install hplip. After a reboot, you should have a fully working printer.
Or: Remove hplip, foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine along with any unnecessary dependencies. Reinstall hplip and restart CUPS. Install your printer using the CUPS web UI, which should now be able to find the drivers automatically. No reboot needed.

HPULD

See Debian:CUPSPrintQueues#hpuld for more information.

The package hpuld^AUR collects the sparse "HP + ULD" packages into one single package.

foo2zjs

foo2zjs supports some HP LaserJet printers. As of June 2018 the hplip package interferes with foo2zjs-nightly^AUR, as described at this forum post and FS#58815.

Kodak

c2esp^AUR is free software. Upstream notes it is likely to work on all ESP and Hero printers/scanners.

Konica Minolta

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
Minolta Magicolor 1600W	foomatic
Minolta Magicolor 1680MF
Minolta Magicolor 1690MF
Minolta Magicolor 2480MF
Minolta Magicolor 2490MF
Minolta Magicolor 2530DL
Minolta Magicolor 4690MF
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

foo2zjs

#foo2zjs, mentioned above for supporting some HP printers, also support some Minolta printers.

Lexmark

Note that most Lexmark printers are now supported by CUPS without needing further installation. See also SANE/Scanner-specific problems#Lexmark for Lexmark scanners issues.

Utilities

Lexmark provides a utility called lexijtools with the drivers.

Custom drivers

Lexmark does provide Linux drivers for all their hardware. The following packages are required:

cups
sane
ncurses
libusb
libxext
libxtst
libxi
libstdc++5
krb5
lua (for the automated installer)
Java (for the automated installer, and some of the Lexmark tools)

The drivers will need to be downloaded from Lexmark's website. Preferably, create a package (see Creating packages) and install it. Here is a basic PKGBUILD that still needs work but will give an idea of what is required.

PKGBUILD

# Contributor: Todd Partridge (Gen2ly) toddrpartridge (at) yahoo

pkgname=cups-lexmark-Z2300-2600
pkgver=1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Lexmark Z2300 and 2600 Series printer driver for cups"
arch=('i686')
url="http://www.lexmark.com/"
license=('custom')
depends=('cups' 'glibc' 'ncurses' 'libusb' 'libxext' 'libxtst' 'libxi' 'libstdc++5' 'krb5' 'lua' 'java-runtime')
conflicts=('z600' 'cjlz35le-cups' 'cups-lexmark-700')
source=(lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.tar.gz.sh)
md5sums=(3c37eb87e3dad4853bf29344f9695134)

package() {
  # Extract installer
  sh lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.tar.gz.sh --target Installer-Files
  cd Installer-Files
  mkdir Driver
  tar xvvf instarchive_all --lzma -C Driver/
  cd Driver
  tar xv lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.tar.gz -C $pkgdir
}

Keep in mind you can use the automated installer but doing so will leave the resulting changes untracked. The PPD will be installed into /usr/local/lexmark/lxk08/etc/ or similar, depending on the printer model.

Oki

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
C110	foomatic
MC561	foomatic-db-nonfree
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Ricoh

Install openprinting-ppds-pxlmono-ricoh^AUR if your device is black and white, or openprinting-ppds-pxlcolor-ricoh^AUR if it is color. Note that Ricoh copiers are sometimes branded as Savin, Gestetner, Lanier, Rex-Rotary, Nashuatec, and/or IKON. So, if you have a device bearing one of these brands, it may be supported by these drivers as well.

For cheap GDI-only winprinters, which do not support PCL (Ricoh series SP100 and SP200) try out ricoh-sp100-git^AUR.

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
SP 112	ricoh-sp100-git^AUR
SP 201n	ricoh-sp100-git^AUR
213W	Generic PCL Laser	Obtain a WPS code by holding down the wifi button for 2 seconds, then hitting the stop/start button.
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Samsung

Since 2016, or 2017, Samsung is no longer in the printers/scanners business. As of 2019, HP partially support some of Samsung printers/scanners. Before 2016, Samsung was a major player. Which is why there are still many Samsung machines around. In addition, Linux, and cups, keep evolving. The bottom line of all this is that supporting Samsung products is at a flux.

A major site for information about Samsung printers/scanners is Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository. Despite its name, it is not affiliated by Samsung. Neither it is devoted only to samsung-unified-driver^AUR. samsung-unified-driver, on the other hand, is close source by Samsung. It also encompass Windows and Mac. It might be the first stop to get a driver for a Samsung printer and scanner as it, or was, claim to support practically every one of these. Note that samsung-unified-driver includes software that can stand on its own, not tied to cups. If you can not get the printer to work with cups, you might try this route.

That said, there are more options. An overview is at alternatives.

Out of CJX-XXX series, at least CJX-1000, CJX-1050W, and CJX-2000FW are reported to work with c2esp^AUR, even though c2esp is supposedly for Kodak products.
For Samsung Printer Language, there is splix. For a list of models that are supported, see its home page. Other SPL Samsung printers, even tough not in that list, might work with splix.
QPDL (Quick Page Description Language) printers, some of which are supported by splix, are also supported by by foo2qpdl, provided by the #foo2zjs package. A list of known to work models is here.

All of c2esp, splix and foo2zjs are free software.

You should also note that many Samsung printers support PostScript. Chances are that it will work with CUPS generic postscript printer, especially if it is only black & white and only printer, without a scanner added to it. Generic driver may be missing functionality or limited, for example in their support for duplex, color control, and resolution settings, and print quality may be lower.

Xerox or FujiXerox

Printer	Driver/filter	Notes
DocuPrint 203A	hplip	Using the DocuPrint P8e(hpijs) driver, or the Brother driver on FujiXerox's website (see #Brother for more information on how to install custom Brother drivers).
Phaser 3100MFP	Install Xerox's driver	See #Phaser 3100MFP for more instructions.
Phaser 6115MFP	foomatic
Phaser 6121MFP	foomatic
Xerox Workcentre 3119	splix	Since Samsung SCX-4200 is the rebranded Xerox 3119, splix package works for both
Printer	Driver/filter	Notes

Custom drivers

Phaser 3100MFP

Warning: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD.

Once you have downloaded the drivers, execute the driver installer and accept the licence:

# cd printer
# ./XeroxPhaser3100.install

Note that the driver is 32 bit, so some 32 bit libraries will be required on an x86_64 system.

For the scanner, create an /etc/sane.d directory if it does not already exist, because it is needed by the installer:

# mkdir -p /etc/sane.d

Now install the driver:

# cd scanner/
# ./XeroxPhaser3100sc.install

Again, on an x86_64 install, 32 bit libraries will be needed.

Phaser 6000B

Install the xerox-phaser-6010 package (archived from the AUR). The driver may require older versions of nettle and gnutls to be installed, since the binary blob linked against older versions of the shared libraries provided by those packages. The oldest known-good versions are nettle-2.7.1-1 and gnutls-3.3.13-1.

Phaser 6125N

Warning: This section involves installing packages without pacman. These directions should ideally be automated with a PKGBUILD.

FujiXerox does not support Linux on this model. An old rpm is available but does not seem to work.

A slightly adapted custom driver has been found to work out of the box.

To install the tarball, run:

# tar -C / --keep-newer-files -xvzf cups-xerox-phaser-6125n-1.0.0.tar.gz