can't figure out Brother 1240 + CUPS

[Steven Friedrich]

The "known" printers have .ppd files in /usr/local/share/cups/model.

Did you get a CD with the Brother?  I recently bought a Brother HL-6050DN mono 
laser, and it's CD had a PPD in various directories.  I copied the ppd to the 
model directory and viola...

You might try the Brother web site... http://www.brother.com/
and since you didn't mention it, you might look at 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/

On Friday 28 January 2005 02:54 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> Trying to setup Brother 1240 to be able to be printed to from across
> LAN (Mac OS X/WinXP), preferably using smb.
>
> The Brother 1240 hooked to the FreeBSD 5.3 machine via USB:
>
> dmesg shows:
>
> 	ulpt0: Brother Industries product 0x0006, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2,
> iclass 7/1
>
> 	ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
>
> I have cups-samba installed (and was able to install my HP 5150 which
> is also on USB on the same machine).
>
> When I goto 'add printer' in CUPS, I give it a name and say 'USB
> Printer #1' and then I am only offered these choices:
>
> Raw
> DYMO
> EPSON
> HP
> OKIDATA
> Zebra
>
> (I was hoping for 'Brother')
>
> I've also installed foomatic-db and hpijs (and restarted CUPS) but it
> didn't change that list at all.
>
> It appears that some folks are using an HP driver, so I clicked on HP
> and then I am only give these options:
>
> HP Color LaserJet series PCL 6 CUPS
> HP DeskJet Series CUPS
> HP LaserJet Series CUPS
> HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS
> HP New DeskJet Series CUPS
>
> I tried both the non-color LaserJets and neither one of them would
> print (it would trigger the printer to turn on, but nothing ever
> printed, just every 30 seconds it would restart the printer.
>
> Since no one else reports this issue, I'm assuming that I am
> overlooking something too simple for others to suggest.
>
> TjL
>
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