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Installation Printers in Debian
Brother driver installation
Download the “Driver Installation tool” from: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=nl&lang=nl&prod=mfc9330cdw_us_eu_as&os=128&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625
The current Brother driver is a 32-bit version and will give error during installation (Package ia32-libs is not available). This package is depreciated and needs to be replaced by alternative.
apt-get install lib32z1 apt-get install cups
Unwanted Printer discovery
The printer selection dialog of GTK applications is populated by *directly* browsing the DNS-SD broadcasts of the remote print server and IPP printers. Whether cups is running or not, this is what happens. In fact, neither CUPS nor cups-browsed is required for the GTK print dialog to function as designed.
Suppose cups-browsed is running with its default cups-browsed.conf. It too will browse the same DNS-SD broadcasts and also populate the dialog, leading to duplicate entries. This is what is observed in Comment 9. If you really, really want cups-browsed, these duplicate entries can be removed by using the filtering facility available in cups-browsed.conf.