On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:39:50 -0500, Rick Lutowski wrote: > Am trying to get a Brother HL-2240 printer working with a new debian > Squeeze installation.
The OpenPrinting site says the printer is "paperweight": http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2240 It seems that needs from external drivers which is always a bad signal (ufff.. how bad, it's a GDI printer). > The Brother website has a linux LPR driver in .deb format that > installed and worked easily under Lenny using the gnome Printer install > menu. Under Squeeze, the gnome Printer install menu seems to be > looking for a PPD file, but Brother does not have a PPD format driver > for the HL-2240. Also tried using aptitude to install it but cannot > get aptitude to look in a local directory for a .deb file. (Am not sure > if using aptitude will work anyway since the file is driver is LPR and > not PPD.) Anyone know how to get a LPR driver that works under Lenny > to work under Squeeze? As per Brother site¹, it seems there are two set of drivers (lpr and a cupswrapper) and also detailed instructions on how to install them. Just follow the given steps and whether in doubt, simply ask. ¹http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-2240 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k1af45$s0t$8...@ger.gmane.org
