Brother-Industries-Ltd

Brother Industries, Ltd

Brother HL-1110 series
Brother HL-1110
Brother HL-1112
Brother HL-1112A
Brother HL-1118

laser

04f9:0054

2014 2013

USB

debian_8 , debian_10

C-None A-Full

not-specified

4.19.146-1

printer-driver-brlaser

No libre drivers available as [h1]Summary[/h1]
This printer is supported by the [b]brlaser[/b] CUPS printer driver created, and maintained at time of March 2017. Experimenting with other drivers prints empty pages at best. writing, by Peter de Watcher. Some manual installation procedures are required before use. In Debian 10.6, version 4-1 of the driver is preinstalled, but the requisite Printer Description (ppd) files are missing and must be rebuilt.

Brother's proprietary [h1]Manual Installation[/h1]
[h2]Method 1: "Lazy" Method for Systems With brlaser, But With Missing PPDs[/h2]
[p]This method does not require build tools to be installed, but a working copy of CUPS, along with the PPD compiler command [b]ppdc[/b] must be present on the host system. It uses an existing installation of brlaser.[/p]
[enum]
[*]Clone the brlaser source tree into a directory of choice, using [b]git[/b], from de Watcher's GitHub repository. If git is not installed, the ZIP file may be downloaded as an alternative.[/*]
[*]Navigate to the cloned source tree. If the ZIP file was used instead, extract the [b]brlaser.drv.in[/b] file to a directory of choice.[/*]
[*]Compile the ppd's with this command: [code]ppdc -vd . brlaser.drv.in[/code] while in the same directory as the brlaser.drv.in file.[/*] Several dozen files with ending with *.ppd will be generated. Take note of the location of the [b]br1110.ppd[/b] file. It is recommended to [i]remain in the same working directory as this file[/i] for the rest of the installation process.

[*]
Find the URI of the device using the [b]lpinfo[/b] command:
[code]/usr/sbin/lpinfo -v[/code]
The URI of a USB-attached printer should appear, among some other entries as something like:
[code]direct usb://Brother/HL-1110%20series?serial=DEADBEEF[/code]
[/*]

[*]
Install the printer in CUPS with the following command, with root privileges:
[code]
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p 'Brother HL-1110' -v usb://Brother/HL-1110%20series?serial=DEADBEEF \
-P br1110.ppd -L 'Your room' -E
# Replace the serial number DEADBEEF with the number of your device,
# and replace the optional location specified by the -L option as
# appropriate.
[/code]
If a desktop environment is in use, the DE's control panel can also be used instead. With a web browser, the CUPS control panel (accessible from the host system at [b]http://localhost:631[/b] by default) is yet another way to install the printer.
[/*]
[/enum]

[p]The instructions above are for stock Debian systems. On some systems, the /usr/sbin part from the command may be omitted as appropriate.[/p]

[h2]Method 2: Build From Source[/h2]
[p]If brlaser is not installed on your system and unavailable via the package manager of choice, the driver may have to be built from scratch. In this case, follow the build instructions provided at the [a]https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser|brlaser GitHub repository[/a]. Build tools and development packages will be required.[/p]

[h1]Level of Support[/h1]
[p]The printer largely works and handles multi-page documents competently at full printing speed. However, the driver is unable to finish jobs that exceed the memory limitations of the printer.[/p]
[p]The HL-1110 has only available as 1MB of memory, of which some is used up by the firmware during normal operation. To maximise the success rate of a precompiled binary for (32-bit) x86 operating systems, and when it works at all print job, try to keep the print quality job under 800KB, by minimising the complexity of the documents being printed. Use raster images and gradient fills sparingly.[/p]

[h1]Versions Tested[/h1]
[list]
[*][b]4-1[/b], on Debian buster (10.6). The driver is visibly inferior, on moderately complex pages, to their driver for other OSes. Not recommended. preinstalled in Debian 10.6 under the [b]printer-driver-brlaser[/b] package.[/*]
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[h1]Hardware Variations[/h1]
HL-1110 has a white and black case, HL-1112 has its colors reversed and is mainly black. "A" variant, marked as such on the box only, comes with a completely filled original cartridge. HL-1118 is a 1110 for the Chinese market, the differences if any aren't known.

[h1]References[/h1]
brlaser GitHub repository. [a]https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser[/a]