No Drivers Found for Brother MFC-J470DW

So, I've followed the instructions on Brother's website, I've got the installer and I've tried running it. I've seen this question: Brother MFC-J470DW Printer Driver Installation , and the answer seems to be the exact instructions brother gives me.

Here's the problem: it doesn't recognize my model name as valid.

alex@alex-1015E:~/Desktop$ sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1
[sudo] password for alex:
Input model name ->MFC-J470DW
Driver-packages cannot be found. Confirm the model name.

I also just tried it with a O instead of a 0 in the model name and got the same result. What gives?

3 Answers

As you say the original post is not working for you, I have rewrote it as simply as possible, using only the terminal, copy the commands exactly

First download this file in a terminal

wget 

Extract it

gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1.gz

Make it executable

chmod +x linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1

Run it (Must be root)

sudo ./linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1

You should see this

Input model name ->

Make it look like this

Input model name ->MFC-J470DW

Press enter, now you will see

You are going to install following packages. mfcj470dwlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb mfcj470dwcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.deb brscan4-0.4.3-1.amd64.deb brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.amd64.deb
OK? [y/N] ->

Type Y press enter and same again for the license agreement, now the installer will begin downloading and installing your drivers.

Tested on 14.04 (No printer but driver installation was tested).

Thank you. Your steps were very clear.

I downloaded the zip file from their website, then followed your steps to make execcubatle and run the installer.

The brother website has the driver, but the steps are faulty for ubuntu 12

This problem is common across linux distros. The driver package is looking for a case-sensitive specific model name for the printer. I have the MFC-j5910DW and needed to type in the printer name exactly like that with the j and DW in this exact case. The printer packaging did display the printer name in that matter.