Public bug reported:
In Intrepid Ibex, the Brother HL-2140 printer is not working under
default drivers. I had installed the Brother LPR driver for this
printer from the HL-2140 entry this printer has on linuxprinting.org,
which is incorrect, and says it works. It also asks for a Brother cups
driver to be installed. After these debs are installed to the system,
it autodetects the printer and chooses a sort of PPD file which is
labelled as for the HL-2170W printer. autodetects, uses this ppd, still
listed as the HL-2140 printer, though it will not work printing at 1200
dpi. I had read on one forum post on ubuntuforums, that someone gotten
it to work using the HL-2060 ppd file, which works for me, when manually
assigning it, however it only prints up to 600dpi. It sure would be
nice to get native support for this printer. I had purchased it, to
replace a LaserJet 1018, which stopped working in Hardy, didn't get
fixed either in Intrepid, so its a little disappointment that my
replacement is crippled. its so hard to find a working monochrome laser
printer for ubuntu, and they are important.
ty
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
In Intrepid Ibex, the Brother HL-2140 printer is not working under
default drivers. I had installed the Brother LPR driver for this
- printer from the HL-2140 entry it has, which is incorrect, and says it
- works. It also asks for a Brother cups driver to be installed. After
- these debs are installed to the system, it autodetects the printer and
- chooses a sort of PPD file which is labelled as for the HL-2170W
- printer. autodetects, uses this ppd, still listed as the HL-2140
- printer, though it will not work printing at 1200 dpi. I had read on
- one forum post on ubuntuforums, that someone gotten it to work using the
- HL-2060 ppd file, which works for me, when manually assigning it,
- however it only prints up to 600dpi. It sure would be nice to get
- native support for this printer. I had purchased it, to replace a
- LaserJet 1018, which stopped working in Hardy, didn't get fixed either
- in Intrepid, so its a little disappointment that my replacement is
- crippled. its so hard to find a working monochrome laser printer for
- ubuntu, and they are important.
+ printer from the HL-2140 entry this printer has on linuxprinting.org,
+ which is incorrect, and says it works. It also asks for a Brother cups
+ driver to be installed. After these debs are installed to the system,
+ it autodetects the printer and chooses a sort of PPD file which is
+ labelled as for the HL-2170W printer. autodetects, uses this ppd, still
+ listed as the HL-2140 printer, though it will not work printing at 1200
+ dpi. I had read on one forum post on ubuntuforums, that someone gotten
+ it to work using the HL-2060 ppd file, which works for me, when manually
+ assigning it, however it only prints up to 600dpi. It sure would be
+ nice to get native support for this printer. I had purchased it, to
+ replace a LaserJet 1018, which stopped working in Hardy, didn't get
+ fixed either in Intrepid, so its a little disappointment that my
+ replacement is crippled. its so hard to find a working monochrome laser
+ printer for ubuntu, and they are important.
ty
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Brother HL-2140 printer not working in Intrepid Ibex by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287889
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