Yeah, it takes two to tango. ;)
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-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 <e...@shubes.net> wrote:
I wonder if it's perhaps the computers they're attached to that become
'confused'. ;)
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-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 <ala...@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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