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Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser

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On 11/04/2013 12:26 AM, Barbara wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:14:43 UTC, Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Where to get and what driver to get to print to this printer natively
>> from an OS/2 program - namely DeScribe?  I tried to use the Laserjet
>> driver but I only get a blank page.  I can print OK from Windows by
>> printing over tcpip into the IBMNULL driver because the print driver is
>> in the Windows computer.  From native OS/2 app I need an OS/2 driver.
>> eCS says the correct driver installs automatically but my setup is not eCS.
>>
>
> This may not help, but I have an older Brother HL-2040 mono laser
> printer which works with laserjet.drv version 30.827. This is a basic,
> nothing special B/W printer with both USB and parallel ports. I've
> used it with both OS/2 and with eCS. This one does not have the duplex
> feature.
>
> This driver is  not laserjet.drv that came with OS/2, but a package I
> downloaded from the ecomstation web site. It's dated 1/31/2005, size
> 2,370,214. In the printer list my HL-2040 is not listed specifically,
> nor is the newer HL-2240D, but it might be worth a try. There are a
> number of HL-2xxx printers that are listed.
>

Still no joy after two or three cuts and tries.  I am getting by with 
printing from my Windows machine work arounds:- pdf file method, opening 
what I can with a Windows program; using the Windows version of DeScribe 
in Win 7's Windows XP mode but they are awkward, inelegant, inconvenient!

I couldn't find that file from the ecomstation web site.  I found the 
laserjet.dr_ under OS2IMAGE\PMDD_1 from my eCS install CD was 1221 kB 
with an earlier date 19.07.04  That is about twice as big as the 
laserjet.dr_ that came with OS/2.  It had some Brother HL-2### drivers. 
  I tried a few but they did not work properly - just a few odd lines. 
The long serving Lexmark PCL5 driver gave nothing.  HP laserjet drivers 
gave nothing.

What I found odd and too hard to understand why is that I had to use the 
USB port created when I created the printer object from Windows printing 
over tcpip.  If I used one I created manually nothing happened, not even 
a blink of the light on the printer.  The properties of the port was 
sensitive to whether the printer was on-line or not; so was the other 
one.  But despite that no printing data would flow through it at all.

Anyway I'm not really prepared to spend too much time trying to print 
natively to this printer because it's only here temporarily (until my 
son settles into a new place).  What I want to buy is an HP Officejet 
printer.  What will I experience with that?


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(If emailing edit the following into the correct form: vbien at 
attglobal dot net, thanks).

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Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> - 2013-04-09 22:14 +1000
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-09 16:50 +0100
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-09 23:57 +0000
    Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Andreas Kohl <ak120@arcor.de> - 2013-04-10 09:03 +0200
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-10 11:32 +0100
        Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.id.au> - 2013-04-16 13:27 +0930
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Barbara" <bca.1824@clutter.gmail.net> - 2013-04-10 14:26 +0000
    Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> - 2013-04-26 21:54 +1000
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Barbara" <bca.1824@clutter.gmail.net> - 2013-04-26 15:47 +0000
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-26 16:47 +0000
      Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2013-04-26 23:17 -0500
        Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> - 2013-04-28 12:02 +1000
          Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2013-04-28 21:33 -0500
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2013-04-10 17:33 +0000
    Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "James J. Weinkam" <jjw@cs.sfu.ca> - 2013-04-10 11:58 -0700
  Re: Printer driver for Brother HL-2242D laser "David T. Johnson" <djohnson@isomedia.com> - 2013-05-03 19:22 +0000

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