Brother Hl 2140 Print Driver
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Printer supports PJL.
Printer supports direct text printing with the us-ascii charset.
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Brother publishes proprietary Linux drivers for CUPS and LPD for
most of their laser printers and multi-function devices, including
SANE drivers for the scanners. They can be downloaded free of
charge on their Linux driver
page.
Some comments of a user s experience:
Date : 09-03-2008 I am using Kubuntu 8.04.1
LTS. The printer was Auto-Detected. I have not had to manually
install any drivers. The driver automatically being used is
Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/HL1250. Prints clean at 300dpi. Prints
very good at 600dpi. I tried to print at 1200x600dpi. It gave me
blank pages. Excellent TEXT printer. Okay Graphical Printer. I
believe that if we can figure out a way to print at higher
resolution, graphical printing quality may improve.
Date : September 28th, 2008 Works with Ubuntu
8.04 with full support even 1200x600 dpi. For having this
working properly, first install the LPR driver found here
Then create a directory for the PPD file with
sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model
Then install the CUPS driver wrapper found here
with dpkg.
After that, CUPS enables to set power savings and correct 1200 dpi
resolution. Enjoy.
Date: November 9, 2008 I use CentOS 5.2, and I
was not able to find a straight linux printer driver on the noted
web page. However, on the CUPS driver page, there were links to
the CUPS driver and the CUPS wrapper driver pages, both of which
downloaded in. rpm format and installed perfectly and worked right
away.
Date: January 04, 2009 I use Mandriva 2008
Spring and Mandriva 2009. Using the above links I found the RPM
drivers AND wrappeers and they both installed fine. I then plugged
in the printer via USB and it was auto-detected and works
amazingly well.
Again, Mandriva just seems to work in most cases, no mkdir
blah, or chmod this file, or even sudo run this or that
command just install both rpm s and
autdo-detect DONE.
08 Feb 2009 Kubuntu 8.10 - The printer was
recognized automatically as HL2140-0series and printing would
cause data to be sent to printer its blue light blinked but
nothing printed. Downloaded lpr and cups. deb packages from
Brother use search on their Web site, Linux drivers are not
linked from the printer downloads page. Follow Brother s
instructions carefully before installing the DEB package; you have
to manually create one directory sudo mkdir
/usr/share/cups/model. When it is working the printer shows up
as HL2140 instead of HL2140-series.
26 Feb 2009 I want to re-enforce the previous note someone else made.
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 : 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.
Consumables/Refills: TN330 or TN360 toner, DR360 drum
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The following driver s are known to drive this printer:
Recommended driver: hpijs-pcl5e nbsp driver home page
HP s HPIJS driver - PPDs for compatible PCL-5e-based non-HP laser printers
Supplier: Hewlett-Packard
License: BSD free software
User support:HPLIP support and bug tracking system voluntary
Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi Only monochrome output Type: IJSText: 100Graphics: 100System Load:UnknownLine Art: 100Photo: 100Speed: 70Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD
Other drivers:
ljet4 nbsp driver home page
Built-in Ghostscript driver for PCL 5e laser printers
Supplier: GPL Ghostscript
License: GPL free software
User support:OpenPrinting forums voluntary
Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi Only monochrome output Type: Ghostscript built-inText: 90Graphics: 60System Load:UnknownLine Art: 90Photo: 30Speed: 90Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD.
Built-in Ghostscript driver for PCL 5e laser printers Supplier: GPL Ghostscript License: GPL free software User support: OpenPrinting forums voluntary.
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