{"id":353,"date":"2006-01-04T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:07","slug":"brother_hl_2040_laser_printer_under_ubun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/04\/brother_hl_2040_laser_printer_under_ubun\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother HL-2040 laser printer under Ubuntu (mini-review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brother.com.au\/Products\/Printer_productoverview.asp?ProductID=177&#038;SubCategoryID=3\">http:\/\/www.brother.com.au&#8230;SubCategoryID=3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was looking for a cheap laser printer that &#8220;just works&#8221; under Linux (Ubuntu). I happened to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officeworks.com.au\/\">Officeworks<\/a> and saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brother.com.au\/Products\/Printer_productoverview.asp?ProductID=177&amp;SubCategoryID=3\"> Brother HL-2040<\/a> on sale for $AU149. A flyer for it mentioned Linux support (via driver download) so I figured I could return it if it didn&#8217;t work at all. The only shortcoming was that the Linux driver only supports up to 600dpi (also clearly mentioned on the flyer).<\/p>\n<p>Setup was very straight-forward and the instruction manual was surprisingly useful. Unpack, shake drum to distribute toner, insert drum, insert paper, plugin, press the &#8220;GO&#8221; button, watch Brother test page get printed.<\/p>\n<p>Now to see if it works from Ubuntu. &#8220;System > Administration > Printing&#8221;, &#8220;New Printer&#8221;, &#8220;Use another printer by specifying a port:&#8221;, &#8220;USB printer #1&#8221;, &#8220;Brother&#8221;, (now the tricky bit) <em>&#8220;HL-5140&#8221;<\/em>, just use the recommended driver, HL-5140 shows up in the Printers window, double-click, &#8220;Printer > Print test page&#8221;, watch Ubuntu test page get printed.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky bit was finding the correct driver. The HL-2040 wasn&#8217;t listed in the printer selection dialogue, so I did a quick google to find a compatible printer driver. Got all the info I needed in a reply to a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willmer.com\/kb\/2005\/05\/printing-to-windows-xp-printer-from-ubuntu\/\">Rachel&#8217;s Knowledge Base<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: Cheap, easy to set up, works, quiet. Limited to 600dpi, but what do I care? <strong>Recommended<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Downgraded to Recommended (from Highly Recommended). Printing is normal volume (not super-quiet) and the the &#8220;economy&#8221; modes don&#8217;t seem to work under Linux. Excellent value at $149 though.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.brother.com.au&#8230;SubCategoryID=3 I was looking for a cheap laser printer that &#8220;just works&#8221; under Linux (Ubuntu). I happened to be at Officeworks and saw the Brother HL-2040 on sale for $AU149. A flyer for it mentioned Linux support (via driver download) so I figured I could return it if it didn&#8217;t work at all. The only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/04\/brother_hl_2040_laser_printer_under_ubun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brother HL-2040 laser printer under Ubuntu (mini-review)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-5H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}