Brother printer problem

I have a Brother HL-2220 printer which worked fine with my Arch computer. I wasn't printing much from this computer (mainly from other machine with Ubuntu), the last successful print I have in logs was in May 2012. Recently I have tried to print something but to my surprise the cups didn't even recognized that printer is connected (message was 'Unplugged of turned off'). Since May 2012 there where a lot of changes, most notably I moved to the systemd.
I decided to delete printer, remove drivers and add everything again. Following the wiki for a similar model (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Brother_HL-2040) I have installed successfully driver (Brother HL2220 for CUPS) and added printer to the cups. However when I try to print, the job is endlessly paused with 'Waiting for printer to become ready' message.
I have tried to add printer with different driver, namely the HL-2170W Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e which worked for me before. Whenever I try to do this (through localhost:631), the cups message is "Unable to add printer: Unable to copy PPD file.". The same error pops for any other foomatic driver I try.
The errors_log in /var/log/cups/ looks for this event like that:
D [25/Nov/2012:12:48:16 -0500] cupsdDeregisterPrinter(p=0xb938e930(Brother_HL-22
20_series), removeit=1)
I [25/Nov/2012:12:48:16 -0500] Setting Brother_HL-2220_series printer-is-shared
to 0 (was 1.)
I [25/Nov/2012:12:48:16 -0500] Setting Brother_HL-2220_series printer-state to 3
(was 5.)
D [25/Nov/2012:12:48:16 -0500] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [25/Nov/2012:12:48:16 -0500] copy_model: Running "cups-driverd cat foomatic:Br
other-HL-2170W-hpijs-pcl5e.ppd"...
E [25/Nov/2012:12:48:46 -0500] copy_model: empty PPD file
D [25/Nov/2012:12:48:46 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer server-error-internal-err
or: Unable to copy PPD file.
Looks to me like problem with foomatic. I have reinstalled it to make sure that nothing was accidentally broken when removing old drivers, but the problem remains.
I have run out of options. Any suggestions?

Here's the dmesg output:
[39727.006107] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
, and lsusb
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04f9:0046 Brother Industries, Ltd
Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups#USB_printers) says something about output:
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
I don't have similar line. But in localhost:631 when trying to add printer (Administration->Add Printer) I see choice of my printer when it's attached, and it disappears when unplugged. Seems it is correctly seen in the system.

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