Brother MFC6490CW Printer Drivers

Question

I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 and can not get my Brother MFC6490CW printer to work. When I try to install the device, Ubuntu does not find a driver.

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, your printer is not supported in the brother-lpr-driver package

So you will have to download the driver directly from the manufacturer's site

• download both .deb files. See screenshot.

• Go through the usual license agreement bla bla...

• Open file manager and go to your Downloads folder.

• Double click the .deb file. It should be opened by "Software Center".
• Click install.
• Do the same for the other file.