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Installing Brother Printer Drivers in Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on June 2, 2010 by admin

As I posted about earlier, Brother’s printer drivers are superior to their open source counterparts in terms of speed.  The open source driver for my printer – HL-2170w – is essentially unusable with PDFs as printing takes 4-5 minutes per … Continue reading →

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Resolution: Slow Printing of PDFs on Brother HL-2170w

Posted on February 15, 2010 by admin

I have been using a Brother HL-2170w as my printer for approximately a year now.  I have it setup as a shared printer, on my Linux server, through CUPS.  I print to it from an Ubuntu laptop.  I initially had … Continue reading →

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Tape Trick for Brother Toner Cartridges

Posted on December 31, 2008 by admin

In my experience, Brother toner cartridges stop working shortly after the toner light starts blinking on the printer.  As I mentioned previously, I recently replaced my HL-2040 with a HL-2170w.  Murphy’s Law reared its ugly face, and my printer refused … Continue reading →

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Brother HL-2170w Printer in Linux

Posted on December 7, 2008 by admin

I held a funeral today for my trusty Brother HL-2040 printer.  After 2 years of heavy printing, the imaging drum and toner cartridge went at the same time.  Unfortuantely, the cost of these consumables is more than buying a new … Continue reading →

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