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Brother laser printer driver
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HL-2140 Does not work --> But listed on main page as working #58

Closed TheRoarkster closed 4 years ago

TheRoarkster commented 4 years ago

First, this awesome what you are doing. Thank you!

Second, running Raspbian on an Rpi3 (note: I have a different issue with installation on an Rpi4 that is discussed here), I installed using sudo apt install printer-driver-brlaser. All seemed to go well. But the list of printers with brlaser support in CUPS is limited to only 1 HL printer (e.g., HL-L2300D) and six DCP printers. I tried the closest to the HL-2140 (and actually all of the brlaser printers listed), but each time the printout had a weird text rendering where the bottom or middle 2/3 of a letter were missing or hollow

In case you can add the HL-2140 specifically, here is the output of sudo lpinfo --include-schemes usb -l -v:

Device: uri = usb://Brother/HL-2140%20series?serial=E0J623111
        class = direct
        info = Brother HL-2140 series
        make-and-model = Brother HL-2140 series
        device-id = MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,HBP;MDL:HL-2140 series;CLS:PRINTER;
        location =
TheRoarkster commented 4 years ago

Wait. I was referred here by a Rapsberry Pi blog, so I thought that this was for Pi (the package does install on Raspbian). But I just noticed that there are no references to Pi. If this is not for Arm, please ignore.

TheRoarkster commented 4 years ago

Ok, so I found the problem. The Raspbian (Buster) package for printer-driver-brlaser does not include several drivers. I had to do this to get all of them: sudo apt remove printer-driver-brlaser Then follow the instructions on the main page to build from source. That provided all the requisite drivers, including HL-2140, which I confirmed works!