Brother Printer Driver

Lil306

I'm used to a HP Laserjet, but Windows 7 appears to be a supported OS for that model of printer, so shouldn't be an issue with the installation. Normally for me it's just a case of using a PCL driver

Normally for any drivers, I don't like using MSI files because I've had issues where it can't install media due to lack of disk space, or permissions to a temporary directly.

I would recommend extracting the contents of the file manually with 7-zip and installing it that way, but it looks like the files have an encoding through the MSI (or still compressed) (eg CHM files are CH_, DAT files are DA_ etc)

That should be the correct link for the drivers (https://support.brother.com/g/b/branch/downloadhowto.aspx?c=gb&lang=en&prod=dcpl2530dw_eu&os=10043&dlid=dlf103411_000&flang=4&type3=405)

Filename was : Y17C_C1-hostm-F1

And for your printer the driver is called - 
"Brother DCP-L2530DW series" = BRSPL2530DW17A.DSI,USBPRINT\BROTHERDCP-L2530DW_SFFCA,BROTHERDCP-L2530DW_SFFCA

Consider looking at the event viewer on the computer, it might explain the reason why it's failing to install a bit better

FWIW - I always had problems with printers after upgrading Windows. My old Canon MP180 was designed for Windows XP, no official support for Windows 10 so I had to run it in compatibility mode. I liked it, was good and reliable. I just use a HP Laserjet 4350 for everything now.

EDIT - Just a further update. The driver folder contains a few .INF (setup) files for installing the drivers. The USB port driver appears to be file brpom17a.inf but it doesn't contain any setup information your make of printer. 

There's a file for Plug and Play (brprm17a.inf) which contains the information about the driver I mentioned above. If you want to manually install the printer. Extract that folder, and either right click on this file and click install. Or go through the add printer wizard, and try choosing this as the driver file

Lil306

I ran through a quick test and it seemed to install for me using the above drivers doing it manually. Since the printer is already installed via USB, it should just be a case of choosing "update driver" when it says the driver isn't installed and manually selecting the file

Gillor

Thanks @Lil306. Can you check the Brother driver link you suggested as it seems to be to be dead

Lil306

Gillor said:

Thanks @Lil306. Can you check the Brother driver link you suggested as it seems to be to be dead

Should be this unless the links are being shortened/broken
https://support.brother.com/g/b/branch/downloadend.aspx?c=gb&lang=en&prod=dcpl2530dw_eu&os=10043&dlid=dlf103411_000&flang=4&type3=405

If not - try this one (https://www.brother.co.uk/support/dcp-l2530dw/downloads). You can select the operating system from there. The file I tested with was the one called (Printer Driver & Scanner Driver for Local Connection)

Jenni_D

Fyi this latest links seems to work .. or at least it does give a web page where it asks you to agree to a EULA to download something. I think the problem with your previous link was that the closing parenthesis was included in the link.  

Jenni x

Gillor

Oops! My fault. I did include the brackets. Thanks for pointing that out.

Lil306

Jenni_D said:

Fyi this latest links seems to work .. or at least it does give a web page where it asks you to agree to a EULA to download something. I think the problem with your previous link was that the closing parenthesis was included in the link.  

Jenni x

Thanks. I copied and pasted the link, not sure if it was me, or part of the forum post had incorrectly formatted the hyperlink

Gillor

Thanks for all you helpful suggestions but still no success - still getting the same error messages. Probably something extremely simple but I still have it at the back of my mind that it may be a Windows 7 problem, a left-over or deletion from some previous programme installation.
Anyway I suppose that if anything, the one good thing to come out of all this is that it has given me the stimulus I needed to upgrade (!) to Windows 10.

Lil306

Gillor said:

Thanks for all you helpful suggestions but still no success - still getting the same error messages. Probably something extremely simple but I still have it at the back of my mind that it may be a Windows 7 problem, a left-over or deletion from some previous programme installation.
Anyway I suppose that if anything, the one good thing to come out of all this is that it has given me the stimulus I needed to upgrade (!) to Windows 10.

Seems annoying. Windows 10 maybe easier, the operating system is bundled with drivers and still supported. I think Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft now, helps to keep it secure. Can still review after if needed. I'm curious myself, direct driver installation should resolve in theory unless the MSI Installer program itself has been corrupted (msiexec.exe iirc)

Mercenary

For my Brother Mono Laser Printer I ended up simply using the Brother iPrint app on my Android phone. The printer is a fussy beast and even connecting it to the WiFi was a real PITA