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Brother MFC-J470DW (network printer) not working on Ubuntu 22.04

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I have a Brother MFC-J470DW network printer. For some reason the printer won't print. I have correctly downloaded the drivers using the install tool on the Brother website. I entered the IP address and got the confirmation

lpadmin -p MFCJ470DW -v socket://192.168.1.77

I have got the printer to work many times using this method. This time a test page would not print. I do not have a clue why it does not work this time. I might add that I have a ubuntu pro setup which I did not have before. I am not sure if this might be the problem.

If I issue the following commands a printer is clearily recognized.

lpstat 

MFCJ470DW-13            cbx             24576   Mon 14 Aug 2023 20:06:20
sudo ss -tulp

0.0.0.0:631                                  0.0.0.0:*             users:(("cups-browsed",pid=1601,fd=7))

However if I run

http://localhost:631/printers/?

I get the following:

Queue Name  Description Location    Make and Model  Status
MFCJ470DW   MFCJ470DW       Brother MFC-J470DW CUPS Processing - "The printer may not exist or is unavailable at this time."

If I open printer on Ubuntu 22.04 and go onto Printer State. I also get: Processing - The printer may not exist or is unavailable at this time. I have also run

journalctl -f -u cups

and get the following error:

hpfax[10582]: [10582]: error: Failed to create /var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip

Not sure if this is important. Any help is greatly appreciate.

I was able to solve the problem. I just had to turn the printer off and on again as I realized I was not able to ping the printer. After that I reinstalled the drivers using the install tool on the Brother website.

Output of lpstat -l -e && lpstat -t is now:

Brother-MFC-J470DW permanent ipp://localhost/printers/Brother-MFC-J470DW dnssd://Brother%20MFC-J470DW._printer._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-8056f2a26ad0
Brother_MFC_J470DW network none ipp://Brother%20MFC-J470DW._ipp._tcp.local/
scheduler is running
system default destination: Brother-MFC-J470DW
device for Brother-MFC-J470DW: dnssd://Brother%20MFC-J470DW._printer._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-8056f2a26ad0
device for Brother_MFC_J470DW: implicitclass://Brother_MFC_J470DW/
Brother-MFC-J470DW accepting requests since Tue 15 Aug 2023 19:43:38
Brother_MFC_J470DW accepting requests since Wed 16 Aug 2023 06:27:02
printer Brother-MFC-J470DW is idle.  enabled since Tue 15 Aug 2023 19:43:38
printer Brother_MFC_J470DW is idle.  enabled since Wed 16 Aug 2023 06:27:02
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Please add the outputs f `lpstat -l -e` and `lpstat -t` to your original info.
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