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theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

Brother HL-3040CN

After numerous unsuccesful attempts. I'd like to ask if anyone was succesful to install the drivers for the Brother HL-3040CN Coler led laserprinter.

The printer is used as a network printer and not directly (usb) attached. Printing using Windows XP and eeebuntu works fine. A ping to the ip address of the printer is succesful.

I consulted http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bs … #HL-3040CN.

Extracted the rpm package with rpmextract.sh
modified cupswrapperhl3040cn to use /etc/rc.d
and copied ~/usr to /usr

had cups installed and configured the printer with Find New Printers and selected the driver.

A print attempt resulted in the following error_log

W [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] [Job 23] Niet-lokale host heeft niet binnen 300 seconden gereageerd met gegevensstatusbyte!
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] [Job 23] Set job-printer-state-message to "Niet-lokale host heeft niet binnen 300 seconden gereageerd met gegevensstatusbyte!", current level=WARN
I [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] [Job 23] Gegevensbestand succesvol verzonden
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Discarding unused job-progress event...
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: clients=1
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: jobs=2
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: jobs-active=1
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: printers=1
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: stringpool-string-count=8583
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=9448
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=155000
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] [Job 23] ATTR: marker-levels=-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,97,96,96,96,96
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] PID 19534 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd) exited with no errors.
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Discarding unused job-completed event...
I [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] [Job 23] Job completed.
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-)
D [04/Jul/2010:12:33:59 +0200] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [04/Jul/2010:12:34:00 +0200] [Job 23] Unloading...
I [04/Jul/2010:12:34:30 +0200] Saving printers.conf...
I [04/Jul/2010:12:34:30 +0200] Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
D [04/Jul/2010:12:34:30 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy
D [04/Jul/2010:12:34:36 +0200] Closing client 13 after 300 seconds of inactivity...
D [04/Jul/2010:12:34:36 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 13

The data light on the printer is lit up but the printer stays idle.

The cups help pages are pretty uselss if printing doesn't work.

So I have the following questions:

1) is my installation procedure in principle correct?
2) for a network printer is cups the best approach or is there another method?

thanks for helpful hints from fellow hl3040cn users

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lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 1,087

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Re: Brother HL-3040CN

What network address setup are you using in CUPS? It should be something like: "socket://192.168.0.104:9100" or whatever 192 address you have assigned from your router.

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theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

Re: Brother HL-3040CN

thanks lagagnon. on the admin pages it says:

Description:    Brother HL-3040CN series
Location:    Local Printer
Driver:    Brother HL3040CN CUPS (color, 2-sided printing)
Connection:    lpd://io/BINARY_P1
Defaults:    job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided

IO can be found

[j@titan ~]$ ping io -c3
PING io.king.ma (192.168.0.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from io.king.ma (192.168.0.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.67 ms
64 bytes from io.king.ma (192.168.0.5): icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.714 ms
64 bytes from io.king.ma (192.168.0.5): icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.710 ms

--- io.king.ma ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.710/1.365/2.673/0.925 ms

Last edited by theking2 (2010-07-04 15:52:23)

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archlinux on a Gigabyte C1037UN-EU, 16GiB
a Promise  PDC40718 based ZFS set
root on a Samsung SSD PB22-J
running LogitechMediaServer(-git), Samba, MiniDLNA, TOR