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:
To Carlos and Mike--
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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