This tutorial was posted by u/tejonaco on r/linux but was removed by moderators. This was the only tutorial i found on internet that made my brother printer work with RPI. so posting this here so it may help others

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Hi, just managed to print from my Android device in my old DCP-197C and I want to share it with you. I don't know if I miss something, because I tried it so many times, but I want to write somewhere what I did today, when it finally worked:

INSTALL ALL THE NECESSARY STUFF

$ sudo apt install qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static cups a2ps

ADD ARCHITECTURE

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

DOWNLOAD LIBC6 FOR i386 (I found it here)

https://packages.debian.org/buster/i386/libc6/download

OR

$ wget old.kali.org/kali-security/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.13-38+deb7u8_i386.deb (this one is old so download updated one from above link)

IF YOU TRY TO INSTALL THIS, YOU WILL MESS AROUND WITH APT, SO WE WILL EXTRACT THE DEB AND COPY THESE FILES

$ dpkg -x libc6_2.13-38+deb7u8_i386.deb data

$ sudo cp -r data/lib/* /lib

$ sudo cp -r data/usr/* /usr

$ sudo cp -r data/etc/* /etc

RUN THIS AND ADD IT TO BASHRC TO RUN IN EVERY REBOOT

$ EXTRA_OPTS="-L /lib/i386-linux-gnu"

DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL YOUR DRIVERS - FOR ME:

$ wget https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf005405/dcp197ccupswrapper-1.1.3-1.i386.deb

$ wget https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf005403/dcp197clpr-1.1.3-1.i386.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i dcp197ccupswrapper-1.1.3-1.i386.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i dcp197clpr-1.1.3-1.i386.deb

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