Brother laser prints blank paper.

rewes

I just bought new laser printer Brother 1230, and it has been great, but when I bought it I only had two wintel boxis, so I bought the cheaper model with no USB. Now six months later we have three macs. So I would like to know if there is a way to get that printer to work with these macs? When I try to print to it trough windows machine, it only prints blank paper. All my machines are on the same LAN. Thanks and sorry about all the typos.

dmband0026

You'll need a parallel to USB adapter

reg

If you have a spare port on your lan you might want to get a print server. That way all you machines could use the printer with out having to swap cables or move machines around. Most cost $120 - $150 USD.



reg

rewes

Quote:

Originally posted by DMBand0026

You'll need a parallel to USB adapter

So it should work with that one? Well I quess I´ll just give it a try.

rewes

Ok now, where can I find driver for this? It doesent let me install it, no drivers found....

reg

http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/softwin.html



This will is the page that you need for Brother downloads.



reg

rewes

Quote:

Originally posted by reg

http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/softwin.html



This will is the page that you need for Brother downloads.



reg

Yeah, but those drivers doesnt work. I´am starting to think that this printer just simply doesn´t work with macs.

reg

After a bit of digging I found this page.

http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/macosxstate.htm

At the very bottom of the page, in small print -

Notes:

* Printer and MFC models not listed will NOT support Mac OS® X 10.0/ 10.1/ 10.2.

* The drivers do not support Mac OS® X server.

* You can use the PostScript Driver supplied with Mac OS® X.



So you will need to use Postscript drivers to make this model work.



reg

rewes

Quote:

Originally posted by reg

So you will need to use Postscript drivers to make this model work.



reg

Ok, so how do I do that? When I connect the USB cable to my mac and try to add new printer it sees my printer, but it doesnt let me install it. "Driver is not installed..." and I can´t do anything after that. Is it possible to install drivers manually? To tell the installer where to find those drivers or what drivers to use.

reg

Sorry I can not help you there. All the printer I have had Mac drivers. Apple's site did not give a good description on how to install the postscript drivers. Hope someone else can help you.



reg

rewes

I finally got it to work. Had to install Gimp-Print, ESPGS, HPIJS-Foomatic, Foomatic for HL-1250 and HL1250 .PPD for HL1230 first, but now it´s working.