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Don't. You'd probably be fine with Ubuntu or Fedora since they're officially supported by Brother, but if you want to use something different, preper to struggle... a lot
I tried to set up the DCP-7055W on Arch before just giving up and using my phone
Driver for DCP-7055W is available on AUR
DCP-7055W
Tried that but it simply doesn't work
And I'm not the only one with this issue. Read the comment
Did you check the wiki ? If you look that model up on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems you check the wiki ?
And click on brlaser (the default driver) you'll find a comment pointing to a fork of the driver
https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser
Hope that helps. If you'd already gone through that then sorry to waste your time
Wow. Thanks. Didn't knew that. I tried for hours but could only find a manual installation guide for the property drivers that dint work . Will try this out
No prob.
In my opinion always check the arch wiki if you're having problems, even if you're not running Arch, it's a gobsmackingly good repository of linux knowledge
I did but I only found a different article that is related to that issue but straight up doesn't work for this printer
Oh, and it's in German and hasn't been updated in a few years