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
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 press continue
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!

Getting More Toner

Bring the empty toner cartridge to Cartridge World and they will give you a full one for $50ish. They reuse the cartridges. They've always had plenty of this model in stock. If you know of a cheaper alternative please edit this wiki.

It's just down the road, 1.5 miles away. Directions

Make sure you bring just the cartridge and not the entire drum thing. Those are more expensive and breakable.

Duplex Mode

Duplex mode is when it prints on both sides of the page. You can turn this on/off at the web interface: http://192.168.42.12/user/prnset.html

In duplex mode, I advise printing just one copy at a time. If you try to print multiple copies in one job, it might COLLATe utf8mb4_unicode_ci wrong. This just happened to me. I tried to print two copies, but each sheet had the same exact thing front & back. Very weird.