I recently purchased a Brother DCP-7065DN printer.
I got it work fairly quickly with a Windows machine Kin loaned me with
the data going through my router.
But I have not been able to run it from my Ubuntu 11.04 machine.
I first tried to download the network driver from the Brother web site
and followed
the instructions there but this didn't work.
I then discovered the printer installation facility on Ubuntu and tried that.
Unfortunately my printer is not listed with that facility so I tried the closest
printer: DCP-7045DN.
The printer was able to recognize that my computer was sending it something
but all I got were a seemingly infinite list of blank pages printed.
I was still going through my router.
I eventually gave up on getting this to work and went back to the
Brother web site
and tried downloading again.
I downloaded the driver to run with lpr (with usb plug connected
directly to printer) and ran the command:
dpkg -i --force-all printername.deb
This seemed to work but at the end I got the message:
start: Unknown job lpd
I assumed I needed to start the printer deamon and didn't know how to
so I did a restart.
Still no luck. I eventually ran:
ps -alx | grep lpd
and got the line:
0 1000 2892 2833 20 0 4152 848 pipe_w S+ pts/2 0:00
grep --color=auto lpd
Which I assume to be my grep command.
I am still assuming that the printer daemon needs to be started somehow.
The /etc/printcap file is:
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
Brother-DCP-7065DN|Brother DCP-7065DN:rm=andromeda:rp=Brother-DCP-7065DN:
If, for a small file junk, I run:
lpr junk
and then run lpq I get
Brother-DCP-7065DN is not ready
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
1st rocky 22 junk 1024 bytes
Note that I tried both the router route and the usb cable route but
got the same result each
time.
Searching the Internet told a lot of things about lpd
but not how to get the printer daemon running.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing and what I should do?
Warning some of the information above is from memory so there could be minor
errors.
Thanks
Ralph (Rocky) Boalnd
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