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Old 10-21-2009, 07:04 PM   #1
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Brother HL-2140 will not print on Slack64 13.0...


Hey all, I installed Slackware64 13 earlier today, and everythings working great, except for my printer, a Brother HL-2140. No matter what driver I try, it will not print, and Brother doesn't have any x86_64 drivers out there. Does anyone know what I can do to get my printer working? Thanks
 
Old 10-21-2009, 07:12 PM   #2
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Hey all, I installed Slackware64 13 earlier today, and everythings working great, except for my printer, a Brother HL-2140. No matter what driver I try, it will not print, and Brother doesn't have any x86_64 drivers out there. Does anyone know what I can do to get my printer working? Thanks
Try using some of the CUPS drivers for the previous versions of the printer like the 1240. I have a 2170W and am happily using the 1270 drivers.

Hope this Helps.
 
Old 10-21-2009, 07:18 PM   #3
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Hi fedoralinuxjunkie,

I also have an HL-2140 which runs very well on the 32bit Slackware 13.0 but I know next to nothing about the structure of a 64bit system. Thread is here.

Andrew
 
Old 10-21-2009, 07:29 PM   #4
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Thanks for the quick replies.

C-Sniper, I tried your advice and used all the other drivers, and could not get it to work still. I was using the HL-2060 driver on my other Linux OS's.

Andrew: I looked at your thread and followed all advice there, but still to no avail.
 
Old 10-21-2009, 09:52 PM   #5
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Have you seen this thread?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=brother+64bit
 
Old 10-21-2009, 10:40 PM   #6
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Thanks allend ...Thanks to the thread you posted, I followed a link in the thread, which took me to Openprinting.org, and I found the PPD file that matched my printer . Thanks again man.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 10:23 AM   #7
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Hi,

You can mark the thread as solved as the OP via the 'Thread Tools'. That way whenever a LQ user searches for solutions then the thread will be marked as [SOLVED] thus providing a good indicator.
 
Old 10-22-2009, 10:56 PM   #8
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