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Re: [SLE] Difficult printers [Was: White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop]
- From: Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:54:20 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <0J8400MWZYTJE251@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 03:52 AM 11/3/2006 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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>The Thursday 2006-11-02 at 21:37 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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>> To Carlos and Mike--
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>> Original reply deleted.
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>No, you did not.
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>And you are also breaking threading info.
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>> I set up the printer in Yast, and I am
>> definitely communicating with the HL-2040, but when I tell it
>> to print a test page, whether text or graphic, it starts to
>> eject all the papers in the tray, with nothing printed on them.
>> When I got the printer, I ran the internal test
>> routine, and it did pass that test by printing a page of text
>> and some graduated gray-scales. It will still do that, so it
>> _can_ print. Lacking some input from the list here, I will
>> try their service email, and then I will call them up, if I
>> have to. Thanx to all for their interest in helping out here.
>>
>> Suggestions?
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>Did you look up your printer in LinuxPrinting.org?
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><http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html>
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>| Brother HL-2040
>| BW laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Mostly
>| Recommended driver: HL2060
>| Generic instructions for: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler
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>There is more on that link, read it up.
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>- --
>Cheers,
> Carlos E. R.
>
OK, I'm sorry to have loused up the threading. I was working from
a stored file, which apparently removes the headers. (I am not on
the Linux machine, since I wish to be able to print useful stuff.)
I went to LinuxPrinting, as you suggested. It should not be necessary
to use the HL-2060 driver, since Brother provides a Linux driver for
_this_ printer.
The rest of the stuff snows me. But I _will_ get it working--I'm
pretty close, now. The computer is talking to the printer, at least,
which is more than I had yesterday. Brother says that if you just
install the RPM and plug in the USB connector, it should work. Well,
it doesn't. When I find out why, I will follow up to the list.
--doug
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>The Thursday 2006-11-02 at 21:37 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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>> To Carlos and Mike--
>>
>> Original reply deleted.
>
>No, you did not.
>
>And you are also breaking threading info.
>
>> I set up the printer in Yast, and I am
>> definitely communicating with the HL-2040, but when I tell it
>> to print a test page, whether text or graphic, it starts to
>> eject all the papers in the tray, with nothing printed on them.
>> When I got the printer, I ran the internal test
>> routine, and it did pass that test by printing a page of text
>> and some graduated gray-scales. It will still do that, so it
>> _can_ print. Lacking some input from the list here, I will
>> try their service email, and then I will call them up, if I
>> have to. Thanx to all for their interest in helping out here.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
>Did you look up your printer in LinuxPrinting.org?
>
><http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html>
>
>
>| Brother HL-2040
>| BW laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Mostly
>| Recommended driver: HL2060
>| Generic instructions for: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler
>
>There is more on that link, read it up.
>
>- --
>Cheers,
> Carlos E. R.
>
OK, I'm sorry to have loused up the threading. I was working from
a stored file, which apparently removes the headers. (I am not on
the Linux machine, since I wish to be able to print useful stuff.)
I went to LinuxPrinting, as you suggested. It should not be necessary
to use the HL-2060 driver, since Brother provides a Linux driver for
_this_ printer.
The rest of the stuff snows me. But I _will_ get it working--I'm
pretty close, now. The computer is talking to the printer, at least,
which is more than I had yesterday. Brother says that if you just
install the RPM and plug in the USB connector, it should work. Well,
it doesn't. When I find out why, I will follow up to the list.
--doug
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