Connecting Brother MFC4150

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Hey everyone,

I’m relatively new to openSuse, so I’m still trying to get the hang of everything. For one, I am trying to set up a printer that I have, the Brother MFC4150. I’m not quite sure how to set it up so that I have all functionality (prints and scans mainly), and I’m unsure about where to go from here.

Any help or advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Angelo

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xangelo wrote:

>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I’m relatively new to openSuse, so I’m still trying to get the hang of
> everything. For one, I am trying to set up a printer that I have, the
> Brother MFC4150. I’m not quite sure how to set it up so that I have all
> functionality (prints and scans mainly), and I’m unsure about where to
> go from here.
>
> Any help or advice would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Angelo
>
>
Start here:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting

you should find information on installing the printer. Brother has fairly good
linux support, so look at their site also.

P. V.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.

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hmmmmmmmmmmm;

I checked on OpenPrinting, and to my surprise, no MFC4150 was listed; a Google search did turn up this forum; PrinterTechs.com which, curiously, says no MFC4150 exists;
brother MFC - PrinterTechs.com Forum

and asks the question; do you mean the Canon Imageclass MF4150?

If it were to be that, OpenPrinting says it is partially supported …

can you just check the printer again?

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I am having a similar problem with a MFC-7840W and openSuSE USB.
I have Brothers drivers installed. YaST2 does find the drivers and so does cups localhost:631. The printer just shows “Sleep” on it’s display. It does work in Ubuntu and Fedora.
Yast2>Hardware>Printer is rather cumbersome. It is not intuitive obvious either.

Donn aka n5xwb@comcast.net

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On Fri January 1 2010 12:36 pm, n5xwb wrote:

>
> I am having a similar problem with a MFC-7840W and openSuSE USB.
> I have Brothers drivers installed. YaST2 does find the drivers and so
> does cups localhost:631. The printer just shows “Sleep” on it’s
> display. It does work in Ubuntu and Fedora.
> Yast2>Hardware>Printer is rather cumbersome. It is not intuitive
> obvious either.
>
> Donn aka n5xwb@comcast.net
>
>
n5xwb;

Read this thread if you have not already:
http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/64-bit/426327-solved-64-bit-printing-brother-2040-laser.html

In particular check post #19 and #20.

P. V.
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