Hl-l2370dw Printer Driver

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Myprinter Brother HL-L2370DW is connected to my desktop directly via the USB port. I used the Brother hll2370dwpdrv driver in the past, and it worked fine with Xubuntu 18.04. After the Xubuntu upgrade to 20.? the printer just stopped working. I don't know exactly when it happened cause I print not every day. I tried to reinstall the printer driver, but it didn't help. That's what I did:

When I use the localhost:631 (cups) to configure a printer. The printer automatically shows under "Local Printers", if i select the printer, it creates the "Connection" as USB and takes me through the configuration to add the drivers.

I was not able to figure out how to end up with a DeviceURI like yours. (I don't know how are you doing that?) I don't think that yours is "wrong" per se, but it may be part of a configuration that may not work for you anymore.

I think some ippusbxd configurations are still going to work, but according to that document it lost support right around 2020, so I am thinking there is a chance that some things for some people are going to start falling off. The answer may end up accepting that ippusbxd is just not going to work for you any more. I'd be curious to see the result if you did a fresh install of 18.04 on a dual boot (because, preferably that specific machine) or test machine and see if you were to quickly get it working.

Because of my print server working, I believe there is clearly other options for you to be able to print. My server only has cups-ipp-utils installed on it. One solution may be to remove ippusbxd and try to configure your printer without it.

...But when I configured a printer on my client, I selected the IPP driver because it is utilizing IPP to connect to the server... Specifically the "Generic IPP Everywhere Printer" driver. I don't know if your connection being defined as ipp://etc/etc (vs usb://etc/etc) on your local machine is going to require you to use the IPP driver, and I cannot get mine to be defined that way to test it.... but that may be worth trying.(if this turns out to be it, then my bad, I just rediscovered this during testing)

Also I've found about potential problems with the AppArmor (in some chat) and recalled that I saw suspicious messages about it in the dmesg output. So I've installed the apparmor-utils package and ran the following command:

This script has created everything I needed, so I didn't have to use the CUPS web interface or the lpadmin command to add the printer. The test page has been printed correctly, also I could print PDF files directly from the editor (!).

The script called the aa-complain program to set the "complain" mode for the cupsd daemon (as I've already did manually). I didn't see this call in the script log before - apparently it appeared after I've installed the apparmor-utils. Please install this package before you run the Brother installation script.

I was surprised by the printer URI, which has been generated by this process - it's not the IPP protocol as it was before, so the IPP-over-USB conversion (AFAIK supported by the ippusbxd package) is not needed at all. The printer setup is:

Occasionally I will try to print from this printer and the job will stay in "printing" status for a long time, with no document printed. This happens from both Mac and Linux computers. Sometimes a Linux PC will be able to print while Mac fails. The printer is not ignoring the print request, as typically many hours later the documents will be printed after all. The problem is not size and complexity of the document as it happens with trivial test docs as well.

During this, the printer will generally say "sleep" in its LCD display, but the printer's Web UI is responding. Pressing the "go" button on the printer does not make it print. Printing a test page using the printer's own display can sometimes wake it up, but usually the test pages come out and nothing else. Printing a test page from the computer's printer properties sometimes helps (after the test page is printed, the actual document will tend to be printed) but most of the time the test page fails to be printed also. Updating the drivers did not help. Deleting the printer and reinstalling it tends to help, but it is tedious to reinstall the printer every time I need a document printed.

I use a Brother printer HL-L2370DW as a wireless printer with my Framework laptop. The laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I can print from the printer from other Windows machines, from my phone and another laptop with an older version of Linux Ubuntu. On my framework laoptop, I can setup up the printer correctly, but the printer remains silent when I hit print on some document.

Namely, I have tried following the steps outlined on the Brother support website, including downloading the drivers and installing them. Everything executes correctly during the installation process but the printer remains silent when attempting to print.

The printer support website is here.

Any idea what could be the issue or how I could try resolving it?

To begin with, you could try to print a network configuration report (page 75 in the manual below). This will show whether the printer as such is working, and will provide basic network information. Also, have a look at page 171 for troubleshooting steps.

Check that AirPrint is enabled (page 132 in the manual). When there is a problem with AirPrint, it may be a good idea to try the following power-cycling sequence as well: Power off the router, the printer, the computer, and all other devices (iPhones, et cetera). Wait two to three minutes. Power on the router. Wait two to three minutes. Power on the printer. Wait a minute or two. Power on the computer. Finally, power on all other devices.

If absolutely necessary, as a temporary workaround, you may want to test a direct USB connection. As VikingOSX mentioned, AirPrint does not work in this case, so you will need drivers. For some other models, a printer driver for macOS Catalina 10.15 has been reported to work even under macOS Big Sur, but that would be experimental. In the specifications for the HL-L2370DW, PCL6 emulation is mentioned, so a generic PCL driver could possibly be an alternative.

The Brother HL-L2370DN and HL-L2370DW are supported by AirPrint, whether wired (Ethernet) or Wi-Fi. You should have your Mac mini and your printer both connected to an Ethernet switch that is also connected to your router, or you can connect both Mac and printer to individual ports on your router if it has that availability.

I have my Samsung Laser printer and my Mac both connected to an Ethernet switch, and AirPrint works like a charm. I assigned a reserved DHCP address for the printer below my usual DHCP address range in my router for this purpose.

I am starting to believe the printer may have been damaged during transpirtation from Canada to Mexico, as the light on the switch remains OFF no matter the cable. The wifi button on printer keep blinking. Seems like the network card of printer does not send signal. As this was coinciding with me updating macOS from Caralina to Big Sur, it was hard to troubleshoot, but just that fact (light off on the switch) really raise something else.

I have a Brother printer attached to my new iMac with Sonoma. I downloaded to it the appropriate printer driver and local printing works. However, we have another computer which used to be able to print to this same printer while I was using the old mac with Mojave. Now the other computer can no longer print. I enabled sharing as sown on the attachment. All I spend my time with is trying to figure out how to make things work with Sonoma.... Is there anything else I should try to make things work as prior to the new computer with Sonoma? Thanks

There are 3 computers: a new imac, an old imac and a Windows PC. Everything worked with no issues prior to Sonoma: the Brother printer connected to the old imac and the Windows PC with sharing. Printing still works with the printer connected to the new iMac. There is no Airprint for the Windows PC and setting up sharing on the new imac doesn't do anything (unlike on the old imac with Mojave, where I had no problems). Hopefully this clarified the confusion.

What no longer works since the new iMac with Sonoma is printing from a wirelessly connected Windows11 PC (which worked from the old iMac with Mojave). Way too many things no longer work since I spent the $2,000.... All I got for the money is issues.....

As I am sure that you know, there is a distinction between AirPrint and general wireless printing. AirPrint is an Apple technology involving Bonjour/mDNS, allowing printing without additional drivers/software. This technology can be used wirelessly (Wi-Fi) or wired (Ethernet).

As you also mentioned, a Windows computer does not use AirPrint, but it can be used for wireless printing with the appropriate drivers. Is it possible to connect your Windows 11 computer wirelessly to the Wi-Fi router, or is it too far away? If yes, there are Windows 11 printer drivers from Brother, which may be useful if the HL-L2370DW printer can be connected to that same router. That could perhaps solve the PC printing problem without the need for sharing via the new iMac.

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