[KLUG Members] Brother printer inconsistency

[Peter Bart]

Daniel Hedlund wrote:
> 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 
Daniel,
    I think I have a similar problem with a Brother DCP7020. I use a
laptop with a port replicator into which my printers usb cord is plugged
in. So I disconnect and reconnect the usb cord every day, sometimes
several times in a day. I went into cups and there I have two printers,
with the default destination being "Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0". I
think I'm missing something about the part where you attach the printer
settings directly to '/dev/usb/lp0'. Both in cups and yast the correct
one is listed as the default. I don't think that's what you're talking
about though. Could you please expand on your statements for a newbie?
Peter
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