CUPS find my printer but doesn't find my printer

hey guys, I have a printing problem, HP Deskjet and I think it’s CUPS related so I made this change to the nsswitch.conf ie

# Name Service Switch configuration file.
# See nsswitch.conf(5) for details.

passwd: files mymachines systemd
group: files mymachines systemd
shadow: files

publickey: files

hosts: files mymachines myhostname mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns
networks: files

protocols: files
services: files
ethers: files
rpc: files

netgroup: files

But when I goto localhost:631 I still don’t see any CUPS info?

Hah, I can’t believe I just lost hours debugging the same issue. Tried ipp, socket, tcp…
Your post had the answer: one single line solved everything:
pacman -S cups-pdf

My printer is a Brother 1622WE which is about the same as yours, it just has a scanner included. I just upgraded it from Brother 1210WE two months ago.

Very good printers IMO, once they are set up you can forget them, just print away.

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I also have a Brother laser HL-L2320D and Cups installs with the online installation. I only have to install the driver from the AUR and everything is installed. I just checked and cups-pdf is there also.

Thank you for the link to your old post. Although it wasn’t related to my printer issue (in my case I had to install the 32 bit cups libs) it did solve a different network issue I was experiencing

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