HL-2070N Brother laser printer driver
Hello,
Just wanted to report my experience with Brother network laser printer
HL-2070N.
I was working with the drivers that come with Debian (cups?) till around
a several weeks ago. Then something broke (apparently in ghostscript)
and it stopped working. I tried it yesterday and it is now working too.
I am sure an upgrade fixed the problem.
Now for the new stuff. I had never tried drivers by Brother
(http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#HL-2070N) so
I thought of giving them a try.
Installed the lpr driver first. Installation went smoothly:
$> sudo dpkg -i brhl2070nlpr-2.0.1-1.i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package brhl2070nlpr.
(Reading database ... 250392 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking brhl2070nlpr (from brhl2070nlpr-2.0.1-1.i386.deb) ...
Setting up brhl2070nlpr (2.0.1-1) ...
Next, installing the cups wrapper gave me a problem:
$> sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package cupswrapperhl2070n.
(Reading database ... 250408 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cupswrapperhl2070n (from cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb) ...
Setting up cupswrapperhl2070n (2.0.1-2) ...
/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1: line 63:
/usr/share/cups/model/HL2070N.ppd: No such file or directory
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/cups/model/HL2070N.ppd': No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing cupswrapperhl2070n (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
cupswrapperhl2070n
$> lpadmin: No such file or directory
Turns out a path does not exist in Debian which Brother's driver demands
(http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/linux_faq-2.html#143).
So making that directory helped:
$> sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model
$> sudo dpkg -P cupswrapperHL2070N
.
.
.
$> sudo dpkg -i cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package cupswrapperhl2070n.
(Reading database ... 250408 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cupswrapperhl2070n (from cupswrapperHL2070N-2.0.1-2.i386.deb) ...
Setting up cupswrapperhl2070n (2.0.1-2) ...
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Finally, I went to http://localhost:631 and added the new printer (it
was listed as HL2070N driver).
- "LPD/LPR Host for Device
- lpd://(Your printer's IP address)/binary_p1 for Device URI
- Brother for Make/Manufacturer Selection
- HL2070N for Model/Driver Selection
For some reason, after this step I noticed that was also an HL2070N and
a USB printer in the list of installed printer in addition to the one I
installed (it had named it "laser").
Regards.
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