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

[Carl T. Miller]

Check to see if your distro includes the foomatic drivers.
If so, install the package(s) and you'll find a whole new
set of drivers.  Try each one for your model until you find
one that prints a test page correctly.

c


On 3/16/21 5:49 PM, R Kannan 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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