[clug] PLEASE HELP! I have angered the network printing gods!

Lana Brindley mail at lanabrindley.com
Thu Jul 2 22:10:47 MDT 2015


I've been using Brother printers on my home network under various
flavours of Linux (plus a variety of non-open OS's) and on both USB and
Wifi for years now, and the one piece of advice I have for you is to go
to the Brother site and download the Linux printer (and scanner driver
directly from them.

L

On 03/07/15 11:18, Boyd W wrote:
> When you say you've powercycled the printer, make sure you unplug it completely  from power, and let it drain for 15 mins. Sometimes this brings devices back to life if it's a weird PSU issue.
>
>
>
> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jessica Fryer <jessicanumber at gmail.com> </div><div>Date:03/07/2015  10:35  (GMT+10:00) </div><div>To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org> </div><div>Subject: [clug] PLEASE HELP! I have angered the network printing gods! </div><div>
> </div>Hi everyone I'm desperate for help. I've tried like two things and I'm all
> out of ideas.
>
> I've got a HP Pavilion 15 running Ubuntu 12.04
> I've got the crappy wireless router my ISP sent me since the old one needed
> replacing anyway.
> I've got a Brother HL-3170CDW from OfficeWorks.
>
> Everything was going swimmingly. Colour, duplex, a little trouble with
> really unusual fonts but I've gone through a few hundred pages, mostly b&w,
> in the few months I've had it.
>
> Yesterday I had two jobs. Print a few info leaflets for a demonstration and
> print a menu to make comments.
>
> I ran out of each colour at the same time, replaced them all, the job
> finished (with some errors toward the end that usually occur when I try to
> send through weird pictures or fonts, but still, they printed) and then
> NOTHING!
>
> I've re-installed the printer, power cycled the wireless, power cycled the
> printer and then re-connected it to the network from scratch (re-entered
> the password and everything), deleted the printer on the laptop and then
> re-found it and re-installed it, installed necessary updates, power cycled
> the laptop. The same test page has been in the queue for 15 hours.
>
> I'm using a driver called HL-3170CDW CUPS that came up during the wizard.
> The printer status message says deep sleep but the data light is on.
>
> Any ideas or places I can look for advice?
>
> Jessica


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