Brother HL-2140 laser printer report

[Eric Shubert]

I wonder if it's perhaps the computers they're attached to that become 
'confused'. ;)
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

Stephen wrote:
> We have about 24 of these at our office for desk printers. Its a nice
> printer for black and white. only issue once in a while they get
> confused and you need to just power them down and unplug the USB.
> power on then reconnect and life is good. across all the printers we
> have it only happens once a month and they run 24/7 usually. If they
> were turned off on a regular basis I'm guessing we would never see
> this.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
>> Our five(?) year old Canon i960 inkjet printer had finally gummed up
>> so bad we have given up on it.  So we went printer shopping this
>> evening.
>>
>> We realized we rarely print in color and laser is so much cheaper per
>> page.  Fry's had the Brother HL-2140 laser printer for $59.  It's a
>> basic printer with three LEDs, one button and USB only interface
>> (http://www.frys.com/product/5533900).  Bought one, brought it home,
>> inserted the toner cartridge, printed a self-test page and went
>> looking for Linux configuration information.
>>
>> The page at http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2140
>> was very informative.  The instructions in the last comment of that
>> page are reproduced here:
>>
>> 1) Plug in the printer to the computer. Ignore all the prompts, hit cancel, etc.
>> 2) Download the LPR and CUPS deb files from this link (or search for
>> them on the site):
>> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#HL-2140
>> 3) sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model
>> 4) sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-architecture [the two debs you downloaded]
>> THE FORCE SWITCHES ARE VITAL FOR 64 BIT MACHINES!
>> 5)Profit. The printer should work and show up as "HL2140".
>>
>> I was installing on a 32-bit Kubuntu 9.04 system.  I did NOT use the
>> "--force-all --force-architecture" options in step 4 above.  I DID get
>> great results with the printer working right away!
>>
>> Slick and smooth.
>>
>> Then, I used the printer configuration application to click a few
>> check boxes so that the printer is shared on the local network.  Then
>> I grabbed my wife's MacBook running OS X 10.something, told it to find
>> a new network printer, it found the laser printer and I from her
>> laptop I printed wireless-to-wired-to-LinuxDesktop-to-HL-2140.
>>
>> Slick and smooth.  Easy configuration and my wife is happy.  I'm happy!
>>
>> Alan
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