Brother HL-2140 laser printer report

[Eric Shubert]

Yeah, it takes two to tango. ;)
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


Stephen wrote:
> 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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