Brother HL-2240D does not connect with Xubuntu 20.04

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 22:46, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My printer is connected via USB and does not contain a wireless
> interface AFAICT.
>
> I've done a fair amount of searching on this.  The best response I've
> seen is the Brother site at
> https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/52188?R3ModelID=HL2240D&_ga=2.43995621.1776589231.1601584104-1260712466.1598826875
>
> However, no matter what model number I select, it always comes up with
> the same usb URI and shows the right model number, but the test page
> never prints.  It gets queued and was "Processing" for as long as 45
> minutes before I gave up.
>
> This worked perfectly well for the last 2 years on 18.04, so I'm at a
> loss to understand this issue.
>
> I did try hplip's setup program, but it only sees my HP All-In-One,
> which is an officejet, not a laser.

No, HP's drivers will not help with a Brother.

Have you got Brother's drivers installed?

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=hl2240_us_eu&os=128


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