Package Details: brother-hl2140 2.0.2_1-4

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/brother-hl2140.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: brother-hl2140
Description: LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother HL2140
Upstream URL: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
Keywords: 2140 brother driver hl2140 printer
Licenses: custom:brother commercial license
Submitter: louipc
Maintainer: severach
Last Packager: FacuTuesca
Votes: 15
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2009-06-05 12:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2016-05-13 11:53 (UTC)

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louipc commented on 2011-02-23 07:40 (UTC)

The cups driver is GPL while the lpr is a custom Brother license. Source: http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/dlf/brhl2140lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.rpm&lang=English_lpr

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-02-23 07:29 (UTC)

@davekong: This link may be of relevance, although I'm not sure precisely which binaries the license covers: http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brother-laser2-cups-driver-2.0.2-1.tar.gz&lang=English_gpl Context: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_src.html#srccd_p1 (search the page for "HL-2140")

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-02-22 21:51 (UTC)

I cleaned up the package some and fixed some namcap complaints. I did not make make a symlink to brPrintList since this is supposed to be a list that could include more than just one printer. Instead, during a new install, the contents of brHL2140rc will automatically be appended to the file brPrintList. This appears to have fixed the issue I was having with margins and adding a2ps as a dependency appears to have fixed my non-printing issue. Please let me know if there are further improvements I can make. I was going to move the ELF files that are not correctly placed in the PATH, but will need to test this first to make sure it does not break anything. I also would like to add a license file, but was unable to find the text for such a document.

louipc commented on 2011-02-09 00:53 (UTC)

Hey guys. I just orphaned this package. I hope someone is able to improve it and solve some of these outstanding issues. Cheers. :D

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-02-09 00:35 (UTC)

@davekong I had a similar issue. In my case I noticed that the a2ps package is missing from the depends list in the PKGBUILD. Try installing that and see if it fixes your issue.

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-02-08 22:22 (UTC)

It stopped working as in, the printer makes noises and CUPS says that it completed the job, but no paper comes out. There is a low ink light on, but that has been on for a while and previous print jobs did not appear faded. I had a problem similar to this before I got the correct driver, but I have been using this driver since then.

<deleted-account> commented on 2010-08-27 01:22 (UTC)

Instead of creating that file manually create a symlink from brHL2140rc to brPrintList ie. "sudo ln -s /usr/share/Brother/inf/brHL2140rc /usr/share/Brother/inf/brPrintList" It includes the default formatted printer options and margins are working as expected for me....perhaps this can be added to the PKGBUILD in a future update if it helps.

<deleted-account> commented on 2010-06-06 22:27 (UTC)

I created the file /usr/share/Brother/inf/brPrintList and added "HL2140" to it and the top margin now appears to be the same as it was before. The bottom of a page got cut off, but enough of the page is being used so that it seems alright. I just tell programs to pretend like the bottom margin should be larger than it really is.

louipc commented on 2010-05-25 05:47 (UTC)

Nothing has changed other than the source URI. I experience problems with the top margin as well. Someone mentioned that adding "HL2140" to /usr/share/Brother/inf/brPrintList might offer a solution. That file doesn't exist in the package though.

<deleted-account> commented on 2010-05-22 22:27 (UTC)

Since the last update, the vertical alignment on my printer seems to be wrong when using evince's print and vim's ":hardcopy". Could this have something to do with the package?

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