Brother HL-2140 laser printer report

[Carl Parrish]

I've got a HL-2170w that I think I picked up for around $50.00. Works fine
out of the box with a direct connection. wasn't able to do the network
connection from linux (had to set it up in windows then it worked fine)

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
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20100607/5b4c3d12/attachment.htm>