[KLUG Members] Brother printer inconsistency

[Daniel Hedlund]

ebever at researchintegration.org wrote:
> I'm running a Brother HL-1440 laser printer with Fedora Core 4 on my Sony
> laptop. It has developed an aggravating habit of sometimes printing and
> sometimes not. E.g., this morning I fired it up and it printed a pdf from
> Acrobat fine. Then I tried to print a document from gedit and it wouldn't.
> Looking at the CUPS administration page, it shows the job as pending (since
> early this morning). The same thing happens when I try to print the document
> from in OpenOffice.org Writer.

I've had this same problem with my Brother HL-1440 printer.  I found 
that for some reason, especially after restarting the computer or 
reconnecting it's USB, that the printer would attach itself to the 
computer with a different unique identification code/number/whatever 
(some reasonably long code used to distinguish the difference between 
two of the same types of printers attached to the same computer perhaps, 
ie: hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4f9_28_...).  Anyway, 
what I wound up doing was attaching the printer settings for that 
printer directly to '/dev/usb/lp0' device instead.  Sometimes a second 
printer is automatically detected and a hal:///...-based printer 
configuration is generated but I just ignore it.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org