Strange Printer Problem

[Steve Holmes]

That sounds close.  The 2270DW is a duplex laser printer with wireless
capability which Office Max had on sale a few weeks ago for $99.95.
That $80 price sounds like the wired-only version (model 2240)
perhaps.  I wish they had sold that one on sale too because I don't
plan to use the wireless part.  At the time I baught mine, the wired
version was not on sale thus costing more than theone I got.

In any case, I downloaded the firmware for supporting Brother 2270DW
on linux and built and installed an Arch Linux package for it.  It
works fine from the console as I said before; I just can't print from
gnome.  Not sure how or what Ubuntu will do with it.  Try from both
the console and gnome.

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:26:47AM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> That model sounds familiar,  Is it the Brother Laser with duplex that Fry's
> advertised one week for $80?  If so, I bought one for my computer club and
> can go check it out there.  I recall having a problem installing it for
> ubuntu but think I got it working.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if anyone can help me out here.  I have a Brother 2270DW
> > connected to my local area network and have the IP address locked in
> > with the static DHCP leases.  From the text console, printing works
> > fine when I use the lp or lpr commands through CUPS.  However, when I
> > try to print anything from any program in GNOME such as gedit or
> > firefox, I get no print.  From what I see in the CUPS access_log, the
> > job scheduled OK and no errors show up.  When I hit the print button
> > from the standard print dialog in GNOME, I can hear a faint thump or
> > click from the printer but then nothing else happens.  It's like the
> > print job simply disappears.  Yet this all works fine from the
> > console.
> >
> > Is there anything I can look for to track this down?
> >
> > BTW, this is on an Arch Linux system but recall that CUPS is working
> > correctly as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas.
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