HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

[helmet]

hey

this worked great on Breezy but to get it to work in Dapper (fresh install) here's what I did:

the device URI initially shows up as 'usb:/dev/usb/lp0' or something like that, and CUPS or whatever doesn't know what to do with it. configure the printer again, selecting Brother and the HL2040 for Cups driver, and then select the usb brother thing. the device URI shows up now as usb://Brother/HL-2040%20series (for my HL2040 anyway)

and everything works fine

[troypiggo]

hey

this worked great on Breezy but to get it to work in Dapper (fresh install) here's what I did:

the device URI initially shows up as 'usb:/dev/usb/lp0' or something like that, and CUPS or whatever doesn't know what to do with it. configure the printer again, selecting Brother and the HL2040 for Cups driver, and then select the usb brother thing. the device URI shows up now as usb://Brother/HL-2040%20series (for my HL2040 anyway)

and everything works fine

I've got the same printer, and a "clean" install of Dapper Server, but can't get it to install.

When I get to the sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperhl2040_1.0.0-1_i386.deb stage I get this error:

(Reading database ... 27236 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cupswrapperhl2040 1.0.0-1 (using cupswrapperhl2040_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0: line 22: lpadmin: command not found
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
...done.
Unpacking replacement cupswrapperhl2040 ...
Setting up cupswrapperhl2040 (1.0.0-1) ...
rm -f /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperHL2040
* Stopping LPRNG printer spooler lpd
...fail!
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
...done.
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0: line 488: lpadmin: command not found

How do I get that command to work? I don't understand your post quoted above.

$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0028 Brother Industries, Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[troypiggo]

I've got the same printer, and a "clean" install of Dapper Server, but can't get it to install.

When I get to the sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperhl2040_1.0.0-1_i386.deb stage I get this error:

(Reading database ... 27236 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cupswrapperhl2040 1.0.0-1 (using cupswrapperhl2040_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0: line 22: lpadmin: command not found
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
...done.
Unpacking replacement cupswrapperhl2040 ...
Setting up cupswrapperhl2040 (1.0.0-1) ...
rm -f /usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperHL2040
* Stopping LPRNG printer spooler lpd
...fail!
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
...done.
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0: line 488: lpadmin: command not found

How do I get that command to work? I don't understand your post quoted above.

$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0028 Brother Industries, Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Never mind. I had installed cupsys but not cupsys-client. All good now.

[metapundit]

Ember said

I have not tested it with models other than the 2030. Yet it should work.

I just wanted to note that this worked for my 2070N as well. After the lpr and cups .debs were installed, I had to modify the printer in my System panel to be a network printer (by default it is installed as USB printer). Select Properties->Interface, hit the change button and type in the IP of your printer). With the addition of that configuration detail, it's working great!

This is on a fresh install of Kubuntu 6.06...

[A_608]

Just a note. I had to go into the printer-properties-connection and choose the local printer option for my printer to work.

[Sin_fe]

Where do you choose "more than one page in one paper" for this model?
I just can't find it.

Thanx in advanced.

[KillerKiwi]

Beutiful, install brother fax 2850 printing over samba share via a winxp machine... got to love the ubuntu community.

Lazyweb - Has any body added this to the wiki?

[haiku99]

edit 01/07:: did a clean install of Edgy, no problems installing the hl-2040 this time(below trouble was w/ Dapper) and the this howto worked fine again....


thanks, this got for my hl-2040 printing, however I ran into a couple of frustrating problems with setup that others may also experience....paper size was defaulting to A4 causing alignment to be off, resetting it to letter at system>administration>printing did not take (although it appeared to on the menu), this is evidently a common problem...when I went to http://localhost:631/ to make changes CUPS asked for a user id and password, mine did not work, also a common problem from what I've read. Anyway, there is a good workaround by bennyj as follows
"I was having the same problem with the user and password not being accepted in the cups web interface.This is what fixed it for me.

open a terminal
type in "adduser cupsys shadow" (without quotes)press enter.dont forget sudo!
then type in /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

You should see it restarting in the terminal.
now browse to the cups web interface and add your printer.

Hope this helps
Benny
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once I did that and corrected my paper size all was well....geez linux/ubuntu is a royal PITA sometimes...but I'm sticking with it...

[Dutch]

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    *  Root and CUPS

Soon after installation has finished, and changed the wallpaper, I let the user root come through:
sudo password root

and assigned it a password. This is because often I will need to be a real root, as in CUPS server manager. By the way, if you need to get access to the CUPS manager from its web interface (http://localhost:631) you need your root password, but you also need to add the cupsys user to this group:
sudo adduser cupsys shadow

and restart cups server:
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

That did it to me !

[jeecol]

Thank you all!

I followed the methods to install my Brother HL-2070N (net printer), and now I can use it via internet. However, it's shame on me, as a Linuxer, I got the IP of my printer, when I installed the driver on another computer in my home (it's MS win with brother driver CD). Can anyone tell me how to know the IP of the printer by Ubunut? Thanks. [I have several computers at home, a D-link router and a cable modem]

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