I have an older laptop with MX Linux 23.4 Libretto. The printer is on the home wifi, a Brother MFC J470DW. It prints color fine, wirelessly, from Windows. I got the Linux driver from the Brother website
(https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa ... &type3=625)
There was an option for deb or rpm, I chose deb.
I also tried the terminal command #lpadmin -p Brother -E -v ipp://[PRINTER IP ADDRESS]/ipp -m everywhere# as suggested here - https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175692181/. All it did was create a clone of the printer in the printer settings.
I also looked at the manual and the wiki, but my problem doesn't come up. No matter what setting I change, it just prints black and white.
I also did a search of this forum. There were 18 pages of hits, but none seemed relevant.
I was trying to print from Nomacs, but Feh and Imagemagick didn't work either.
There were no errors or error messages, and I now have about 20 copies of a b/w photo of my daughter with my grandson.
I appreciate any help you can provide.
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System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-25-amd64 [6.1.106-3] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.4_x64 Libretto September 15 2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
(bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite C655 v: PSC2EU-00R00F
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC serial: <superuser required> BIOS: INSYDE v: 1.20
date: 08/01/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.0 Wh condition: N/A volts: N/A model: N/A type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: not charging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i3-2310M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge gen: core 2 level: v2
built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB
desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 836 high: 894 min/max: 800/2100 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: ondemand cores: 1: 810 2: 843 3: 800 4: 894 bogomips: 16761
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB
filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Toshiba
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports:
active: LVDS-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Importek TOSHIBA Web Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.3:4
chip-ID: 10f1:1a34 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0
driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99") s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Seiko Epson 0x5541 built: 2009 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101
gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: Toshiba 6
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-25-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet vendor: Toshiba driver: atl1c v: kernel
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:2062
class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver: rtl8192ce v: kernel modules: wl
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8176
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 11.65 GiB (2.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD050 size: 465.76 GiB block-size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1C
scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 465.76 GiB size: 457.38 GiB (98.20%) used: 11.65 GiB (2.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 600.5 MiB (29.3%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2417 libs: 1186 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teamviewer-keyring.gpg] https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
Info:
Processes: 241 Uptime: 1d 18h 33m wakeups: 3 Memory: 2.79 GiB used: 2.18 GiB (78.2%)
Init: SysVinit v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0
alt: 12 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)