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dedmass

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Registered: 2017-01-05

Posts: 3

Brother HL-3140CW Printer not working

I am trying to print to a Brother HL-3140CW printer. I installed the brother-hl3140cw package from the AUR and added the printer via Gnome Print Settings by IP address. The printer shows up but trying to print a test page does nothing and the printer status in Gnome is "Idle - No pages found!".

/var/log/cups/error_log:
E [07/Sep/2017:17:10:56 -0400] [Job 181] No pages found!
W [07/Sep/2017:17:12:16 -0400] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-HL-3140CW-Gray..\' already exists
W [07/Sep/2017:17:12:16 -0400] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-HL-3140CW-RGB..\' already exists
E [07/Sep/2017:17:12:18 -0400] [Job 182] No pages found!
W [07/Sep/2017:17:14:23 -0400] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-HL-3140CW-Gray..\' already exists
W [07/Sep/2017:17:14:23 -0400] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-HL-3140CW-RGB..\' already exists
E [07/Sep/2017:17:14:26 -0400] [Job 184] No pages found!
W [07/Sep/2017:17:15:02 -0400] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-HL-3140CW-Gray..\' already exists
W [07/Sep/2017:17:15:02 -0400] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id \'Brother-HL-3140CW-RGB..\' already exists
E [07/Sep/2017:17:15:05 -0400] [Job 185] No pages found!

How can I fix this error?

Last edited by dedmass (2017-09-07 21:23:11)

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: Brother HL-3140CW Printer not working

You probably won't have someone with an all made solution since there can be many causes for these errors. I have a Brother printer, but not the same as yours and I have manually installed the rpm from the browser site instead (in my case the AUR package relocated files which were not relocatable); I have used the rpm-org available in the AUR to install the RPM (you can probably extract the rpm by hand instead).

Anyway, first use exclusively http://localhost:631 to configure your printer and not Gnome tools; this is the official interface provided by CUPS and less likely to cause errors. Be sure to enable debugging and start over. Also, could you first to try to connect the printer via a USB cable (if the printer supports it), in order to determine if this printer can print at all with the given driver or if it is a network problem. So that you can know how to go further, debugging the network connection or the printer itself. After a few trials and errors, you could probably narrow the problem and hopefully solve it. This is how I debug my printers.

Last edited by olive (2017-09-09 09:52:14)