Printer Puzzlement

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:
> My laptop runs Hardy,
>
> I have a Brother HL-1440 laser printer with the CUPS drivers from
> brother installed.  The printer is normally attached to an XP box that
> shares the printer.  I have CUPS configured to see it as two printers,
> local and network (Using the same drivers, same settings, just the
> location is different)
>
> If I unplug the usb cable and plug it directly to the laptop, it works
> fine, prints perfectly.  If I print to it as a network printer, the
> print image is shifted down the page about an inch and runs off the
> bottom.
>
> Has anyone run into this?  I assume that XP is doing something to the
> print stream, but I would not know where to begin.  I have tried a few
> google searches, but all lead back to problems folks are having with
> installing the brother drivers, or problems in the windows environment.
> The windows sharing help is useless.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.

I used to have a problem like that with my Brother DCP-7020 and it was
a one-line fix. I can't remember which file -- probably the ppd.

I got the fix by emailing Brother support, so first check to be sure
you have all the latest drivers from the Brother site (because they
may have fixed it in an update). If installing the software using
their instructions doesn't fix it, their contact information is on the
Brother.com site.