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SMC7008BR and Brother DCP-1000
Authored by: audiofoo on Jan 02, '03 12:40:36AM

I want to print from my new Ti Powerbook to a brother laser printer that is connected to my router's built in print server. All of my PC's can print to the laser printer fine through the router and I set up the PB with all the great tips I found on this site. Unfortunately, as soon as I hit print I get the standard spooling message and the display on the printer even says "recieving data" but as soon as the spooling is done the printer just goes back to sleep.

I'd like to point out a few things before I get a response.

1. Hooking up the Ti PB directly to the printer using a USB cable works perfectly.
2. I'm using an Airport card and can browse the web with no problems.
3. There are no brother printers to choose from when setting up the printer.
4. I've installed "Gimp-Print" went to the CUPS site and a host of other things suggested here but I get the same result. Printer acts like it is "recieving data" then goes back to sleep.
5. The print queue name is "lp" and the address is my router ip address
6. On the brother site it says my model is supported printing via USB but not via ethernet (Which seems to be the only logical reason I can think of on why it doesn't work)

I really want to get this to work.

Thanks for any advice - V



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