Openprinting.org is a great resource for this http://www.openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/Brother/
According to the site the Brother HL-2140 "mostly" works on linux. i consulted it before picking a brother hl-1440 out of a junk heap last week. which is listed as "Perfectly" working on linux. I just plugged it in, and it works (linux mint 8). Maybe i had to go add printer in printer configuration, but it was straightforward. 2010/6/7 Carl Parrish <cparr...@carlparrish.com> > 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 <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 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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