> I have a shared printer (Brother HL 2040) on my home network. My Macs can > print to it with no problem. I have just added a Linux machine (Fedora 10) > to the network. It can see the printer but can't print to it. I believe > that this is because it does not have the print driver. Is there a way that I > could find a driver that would work or is there some other work around? The > printer is attached to my iMac running 10.4.11 > Thanks,
Assuming you're running cups and have the cups daemon running, try opening http://localhost:631 in the browser of your choice. After the webpage opens, select "Administration" then "Find New Printers". A word of warning, it's likely to ask you for the user and password, easiest solution is to use root and the root password otherwise as the superuser you'll have to add your user to a group authorized to administer Cups. If it sees it, select Brother and then the HL2060 driver. Then tell cups to add the printer as configured. It prints slightly off center horizontally which can be corrected once the printer is working reliably. http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2040 details how to align the horizontal axis. Incidentally, the HL-2040 and HL-2070 also can use the HP Laserjet PCL 6 cups driver too, but the 2060 driver works better for the 2040, while the 1250 driver works better for the HL-2070. Continue ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
