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    HOWTO: Set up your Brother Laser printer

    Hi,

    so today I bought a nice new laser printer for my home office, namely a Brother 2030. This neat device is supported well by Linux as Brother provides drivers as well as a tutorial (they even provide .debs). So generally speaking, this is an A+ device for Linux, yet there are some glitches.

    So here's a 7 step tutorial to setting up your printer, mainly taken from [URL="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_wrapper_install3.html#printset"]here/URL]:

    1) Download the right .deb for your model (LPR driver) here.

    2) Download the right .deb for your model (CUPS wrapper) here.

    3) Open a terminal and become root (or use sudo in front of all following commands):
    Code:
    su

    3) Install the LPR driver first with:
    Code:
    dpkg -i brhl2030lpr_1.1.2-3_i386.deb
    (the name may change for your model)

    4) STOP! Now we don't install the cups wrapper, but we do the following first:
    Code:
    ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/cups
    Apparently the Brother developers were mistaken about the name of cups, because it differs in Debian from other distributions (i.e. it is named cupsys instead of cups)

    5) Now install the cups wrapper:
    Code:
    dpkg -i cupswrapperhl2030_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
    (may again be differently named depending on your printer model)

    6) Open a browser and go to http://localhost:631/. You should find your printer there and you can configure it's every option.

    7) Have fun, print fast and enjoy yourself

    Best regards,
    ember
    Last edited by ember; January 31st, 2006 at 02:02 AM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    Could you rename this to 'How to Install a Brother printer"? It would be the best if you could.

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

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

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    excellent howto this one! worked out of the box for my Brother HL-2040.

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    arnieboy,

    how do you like your 2040? I am looking into getting one...

    fergus
    Ubuntu, better than a sharp stick in the eye!

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    Quote Originally Posted by fergus
    arnieboy,

    how do you like your 2040? I am looking into getting one...

    fergus
    works great. would have been even better if it had supported duplex printing.

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    I am shopping for a laser printer for my home office & stumbled upon this. I had originally been shopping for an HP but after reading about them being in MS' pocket I think I'll look someplace else.

    Locally I can get a Brother 2040 for about $125. Can anyone offer info about it? Fairly fast? Good quality? Affordable toner? Thanks

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    Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    It just wont work well with gnome (default printing works, but no settings possible)

    I installed my HL-2030 on a Kubuntu 5.10 and Ubuntu 6.06... both worked perfectly, but my Ubuntu 5.10 wont print the way i want. Default printing works, but it simply ignores 2-on-1-page-settings.

    After the installation, exactly as written above, the HL2030 appears on Printers, as normal. It can be swtiched to 300 or 600 dpi, driver-list says "HL-2030 for Cups" and everything seems to be correct.
    BUT as written before... it wont react to any settings, but print default style on and on...

    *HELP*
    Last edited by phux; April 25th, 2006 at 10:36 PM.

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    Lightbulb Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    Quote Originally Posted by kuyaedz
    I am shopping for a laser printer for my home office & stumbled upon this. I had originally been shopping for an HP but after reading about them being in MS' pocket I think I'll look someplace else.

    Locally I can get a Brother 2040 for about $125. Can anyone offer info about it? Fairly fast? Good quality? Affordable toner? Thanks
    I love it but I don't do any intensive printing. It's pretty fast for an inexpensive laser printer. I got mine used (refurbished) throuhg TigerDirect for about $70. They also sell toner through Tiger pretty cheap. If anybody knows of anything cheaper I'd love to hear about it.

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    Wink Re: HOWTO: Set up your Brother 2030/70 Laser printer

    Well, it's very similar to my tutorial for the MFC210C. The pattern looks familiar. Excellent.

    Well, figured I should put a link in this tutorial to mine for those who haven't found what they're looking for.

    Cheers!

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