Brother HL-2270DW
It's a networked printer. Most operating systems will find it automatically if you're connected to any of these wifi networks:
- sudomesh
- sudoroom
- sudoroom24g2
- sudoroom2.4ghz
- sudoroom5ghz
- basement
- Omni Ballroom
If you have trouble over the network, you can also connect by USB.
Details
Model: Brother HL-2270DW
Model website: http://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail/1/HL2270DW/
user guide
network user's guide
Features: B&W laser duplex wifi
wifi mac address: 00:22:58:18:DD:FD
ethernet mac address: 00:1B:A9:56:22:ED
Configured to connect to the SSID "sudomesh" with static IP 192.168.42.12
You can access its web interface from the sudo network: http://192.168.42.12/printer/main.html
The user is "user" and its password is "sudoroom" - the admin password is kept by Yar
Original listserv announcement: http://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-sys/2013-December/000144.html
HELP! how do i stop it printing stuff nobody wants?
if you're printing from linux, try emptying your local print spool by typing lprm
also try the printer's web interface maybe
bare-metal linux instructions
- Install & run CUPS
- On Ubuntu/Mint:
apt-get install cups
service start cups
- On Debian:
apt-get install cups
/etc/init.d/cups start
- On Arch Linux:
pacman -Syu cups
systemctl start cups
- On Ubuntu/Mint:
- You configure CUPS through the browser at: http://localhost:631/admin
- Click on
Add Printer
. It will ask you for your root password. This is very insecure but it's how some stupid Linux things work!- User Name: root
- Password: your root password
- Under Other Network Printers, select:
LPD/LPR Host or Printer
and presscontinue
- Under Connection, enter this string:
lpd://192.168.42.12/queue
- Choose a name, description & location you will remember, then press
continue
- Under Make, select Brother. Press
continue
. - Under Model, select:
Brother HL-1250 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended)
. - Press
Add Printer
. - Try printing a test page!