Brother HL-2140 laser printer report

[Stephen]

I thought so as well but a simple reboot or dis/re-connect would clear
that, but I have to restart the printer.

Only other option is is the driver and the printer needs to forget the
borked command

On 6/5/10, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> 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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