As I posted about earlier, Brother’s printer drivers are superior to their open source counterparts in terms of speed. The open source driver for my printer – HL-2170w – is essentially unusable with PDFs as printing takes 4-5 minutes per page. I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 and was unable to get the Brother printer driver working. The issue is that Ubuntu 10.04 does not have a /usr/share/cups/model/ directory, which is where the CUPS Wrapper installs the PPD file. Luckily, the fix is simple:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model/