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N4RPS:
Hello!

For Linux Lite, you will need the .deb file.

Derivatives of Debian Linux, such as Ubuntu and Linux Lite, use .deb format packages. Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, and their derivatives use packages that are in .rpm format. If necessary, .rpm packages can be converted to .deb format, but I've never tried that...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

jefboyardee:
Didn't install a thing specifically, just let the the printer setup (cups?) do it all. It found something and told me to click Okay, which I did. Forgot to say... I have done the printer reset several times.

Just checked Brother for a possible download, but I don't even know which I want:
    Linux (rpm)
    Linux (deb)
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl2140_all

N4RPS:
Hello!

Brother supplies Linux drivers for their printers - to my knowledge, they are not supported natively in Linux. Did you install one from the Brother web site?

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

jefboyardee:
Alongside W7HP and Linux Mint 17, I just installed Linux Lite. I like it, but...

When I chose my printer (Brother HL-2140) and then clicked print a test sheet, it printed a blank sheet, then another, another and so on. To get it to stop, I deleted that printer, rebooted, re-chose it... same problem.

Then I tried reformatting that partition and reinstalling Lite... same problem. Then I tried that test on Mint. It used to work fine, but it suddenly had the same problem. Tried a page in W7HP, no problem.

Because I'm just goofing with Linux, I deleted and reformatted my three ext4 partitions and the swap partition. Then I installed Mint again, but not Lite... same problem! So, as for this forever printing problem...

Because the printer works fine in Windows, the printer isn't the problem, per se, but it does seem to be misinterpreting commands when booted from any Linux OS. Crazier still, until I installed Linux Lite, there was no problem, but the problem remains if I remove it.

And yes, I've rebooted the printer itself several times... ideas?

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