Interestingly, Brother provides CUPS drivers for a fairly large proportion of its range, larger than the support that is packaged out of the box by free operati

Interestingly, Brother provides CUPS drivers for a fairly large proportion of its range, larger than the support that is packaged out of the box by free operating systems. It provides both DEB and RPM packaged drivers. For example: * https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=au&lang=en&prod=mfcj6530dw_us_eu_as&os=128 https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=au&lang=... The downside is that they are closed source binaries. For Linux only. And only 32-bit. Recently I had to switch over printing from a FreeBSD machine to a Debian 9 machine because there was no portable driver and nothing supporting the particular printer range out of the box in the CUPS packages. Then printing simply failed silently with printouts apparently vanishing out of the print queue into thin air (apart from an obscure report of 0 bytes printed in a log file when debug mode is on) because I didn't have the 32-bit C and C++ GNU libraries installed on the 64-bit machine. I went on a couple of wild goose chases diagnosing that one. I was halfway tempted to write it up for Unix StackExchange.