Printer Brother MFC-7420
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I successfully installed a printer Brother MFC-7420 on Trisquel 6. It appears to install fine (using a driver for 7450, not 7420), but when I try to print, even a test page, it won't print. The printer screen says Receiving Data, but no page comes out. Installing with the 2nd drived (not the one listed by Trisquel as recommended) allows me to get a page to come out, but blank one. And instead of the one page, it keeps shooting out lots of pages, so I have to press the Cancel button on the printer itself.
Sorry, I didn't mean to send it yet... At any rate, I tried installing by chosing the option "Search for Printer Driver to Download", but that didn't do anything (I don't think this worked at all, it didn't give me any serarch results etc.). The 3rd option it gives me is to provide a ppd file. Should I be looking for an installation CD that supposedly might have it? Or is there a simpler way to do make the printer work?
Thanks!
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There are a lot of printers out there dependant on non-free drivers and firmware. The printer may not work with Trisquel. Even amongst HP printers there are certain classes that there are no options. For instance at the consumer level there are no current generation all-in-in laser printer/fax/ scanners.
There is a solution to this... Get a combination of an HP inkjet all-in-one printer and a HP laserjet printer. * Note: Not all such HP printers work although there are at least a handful in each of these categories that are free software friendly.
Apparently that printer will not work with free software.
You are right - I tried all suggestions above and the best I could do is make the printer spit out a blank page. Thanks to everyone for helping me try.
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