From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 5/15/24 6:01 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-15, philo wrote:   
   >> On 5/3/24 10:08 AM, philo wrote:   
   >>> I posted last years about trying to get my Brother HL-L2370 working with   
   >>> Ubuntu 22.04   
   >>>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >> Any suggestions of a printer that is easy to setup from Linux ?   
   >   
   > Brother. Do make sure you've followed their instructions to the letter   
   > (especially with regards to the print queue you need to use -- IIRC,   
   > mine all want "BINARY_P1"); and also look out for "Special   
   > Instructions" for that model -- 2 of the 3 Brother printers I've had   
   > over the last 20-odd years have needed i386 / multiarch enabled.   
   >   
   > DO NOT try using the mDNS / Zeroconf one that CUPS may auto-detect /   
   > auto-add.  In all three printers I've had, the zeroconf print queue is   
   > wrong -- IIRC, it defines "DEFAULT" or something to that effect, which   
   > seems to not play nice with the data format linux is sending out)   
   >   
   >   
      
      
      
   Finally got everything working.   
   I feel sorry for a non-tech trying to go through this.   
      
   Here is how I got the printer to work in Linux using the actual Brother   
   driver.   
      
   When I initialed "add printer" here is how I entered the URI :   
      
   socket://192.168.2.103:9100   
      
   I would not have been able to have figured that out except I used the   
   setting that my old Samsung printer software detected automatically.   
      
      
   Then I was able to select the printer from the dialog.   
      
   Even though my printer is an HL-L2370...the recommended printer to   
   install was the HL-L2360...but it worked fine.   
      
   I of course went back trying the HL-L2370 but ...no surprise...that did   
   not work.   
      
      
      
   For an old man, I've learned a lot this week.   
      
   My other challenge was setting up an XP machine for someone who was   
   running some manufacturing equipment that they claimed only works with XP>   
      
   This is the first time I've ever said: Wow, this machine is a bit too   
   new for what I'm trying to do.   
      
   The XP installed crashed until I took the BIOS setting of AHCI and   
   changed it to compatibility mode   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)