On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:28:30 +0000 (UTC),
bob prohaska , in
 wrote:
>  Trying to set up Buster to print over a LAN to a
>  Brother MFC8480dn B&W laster printer. Cups installed
>  without obvious issues, runs as expected and finds
>  the printer by IP address. I fed it a .ppd file and
>  all seems good. Cups 2.2.10 can see the printer, read
>  the defaults and make changes.
>
>  When I print a test page cups reports "filter failed",
>  a little later it reports "unable to locate...."
>
>  AIUI, there shouldn't be any filters because the printer
>  supports PostScript.
>
>  Anybody got a clue? First time I set up Jessie for the
>  same printer it seemed a lot easier.....

What was it unable to locate? in my experience, those tend to be a
perl script that isn't installed or isn't invoked correctly.

These maybe of use

https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-MFC-8480DN
https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc8480dn_us

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