Jarle Aase composed on 2016-03-08 16:56 (UTC+0200):
The printer display says that it is receiving data. Then nothing happens. So
the comm-link is OK.
I have a bunch of multiboot machines. Among the installations are Wheezy,
Jessie and Stretch, among various releases of Fedora, Kubuntu, openSUSE,
Mageia, and others.
Last summer, to replace a Canon MF laser (Canon I'll never buy again, printer
or anything else, due to lack of customer support for Linux users) I acquired
first (new):
Brother HL-5470DW
then (new, but very old stock):
Brother MFC-420CN
Both are connected only via Ethernet. On some installations I had no trouble
making the laser print, while on others I never did figure it out. Whether
any Jessie was among those successful I don't remember, and I think I didn't
even try with Stretch. IIRC, it was only in the most recent releases using
the latest CUPS versions that I had trouble, but I've forgotten all details.
As a result of the trouble I had, I've never even tried to configure the
inkjet as a printer. I've used it only as a copier so far. It's nuts. If out
of color ink it refuses to print anything (according to Brother, that's
normal, and really stupid), even when I want black only, and it won't print
black at all anyway (it did when I got it, but quit long before the first ink
cartridge ran out).
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