[mdlug] Brother HL-L3270 printer through CUPS on Ubuntu 16.04

[Jeff Hanson]

No idea but last year I had a bunch of problems getting HPLIP to work due
to a conflict with ipp-usb.  The lack of printer status in HPLIP was one of
the symptoms.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:49 PM R Kannan <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I replaced an old brother HL4040CN printer with Brother HL-L3270pdf
> printer. Once I connected it to my wireless, CUPS found the printer
> (through DNSSD)  and used the  apropriate driver I had downloaded and
> installed. But I found that it does not orient the pages correctly in
> the landscape mode from Acrobat reader. The status on CUPS always says
> "Idle - "Waiting for job to complete."
>
> With the old printer, I had it connected through USB to a 'Hawkings
> print server' (https://www.hawkingtech.com/product/hwps12ug/) which
> allowed me to add multiple printers which I can access from CUPS. This
> worked well but unfortunately I deleted the printer from CUPS and do not
> remember what protool I had used to connect.  I tried to do the same
> with the new printer and tried adding it to CUPS through IPP protocol.
>
> ipp://192.168.1.100/HL3270
>
> When I tried to print a test page using this, there is no print out. The
> CUPS status says "Unable to get printer status.".
>
> Any ideas on how I can make this work through the 'print server' or
> directly on the network?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
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