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