I have successfully installed my (old) Brother printer on a standaloneVM.
Now, I am trying to create a printer setup based on a debian-11-minimal.
Qubes setup:
deb-11-m-printer (templateVM)
printer (appVM)
Packages I have installed:
qubes-core-agent-passwordless-root
qubes-core-agent-nautilus
qubes-usb-proxy
system-config-printer
cups
nautilus
zenity
evince
pdftk
eog
Device setup:
(old) Brother HL-2035
USB connected (routed with sys-usb)
It looks ok but I do not get a printer job executed also the test-page does not work. All jobs are in waiting mode “Processing” or “Pending” (waiting for the previous job)
I have run the original bash installer script from: https://support.brother.com
went through without any issue.
Interesting - I have CUPS disabled and, like wifi and remote access, I don’t let any print services anywhere near the internet, either so…that’s particularly interesting. Thanks for posting!
I was never able to get my HP printer to work in Debian Minimal, despite installing all the necessary packages. My printer works fine in Debian. There must be a missing package for printers to work in minimal.
The only things I install are hplip, hplip-gui, and system-config-printer. Once this is done, however, you need to run system-config-printer on the template to set up the printer (or forever be doing it in your appvm/disposable). [yes, running even that setup on a template is suboptimal! I’m working on shifting the printer to a dedicated template so at least only that one template is contaminated.]
To use the scanner (if you have a combined scanner/printer) one must install some sort of scanner software (e.g., simple-scan) on the qube that’s going to do the scanning, otherwise, your printer/scanner will simply think it’s not hooked up to anything.
@Sven apologizes to point you directly to this issue but I remember you as a Debian minimal expert. Hopefully, you can support us on this printer issue on (deb-11-minimal) or at least provide us some hints to further dig into this issue (currently we have no approach to debug since everything looks ok; but the printer process is simple not executed).
