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Re: [SLE] Difficult printers [Was: White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop]
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 02:52:47 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611030345260.6116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Thursday 2006-11-02 at 21:37 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:

> 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.

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