Installing Cups driver for Brother 2040 Printer

Pre-required Procedure (2)

Related distributions

Ubuntu8.04/8.04.1, Ubuntu8.10, Ubuntu9.04

Related products/drivers

cupswrapper printer/PC-FAX drivers

Requirement

1. "sudo aa-complain cupsd" command is required before the installation.

2. "sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/model" command (as it is) is required before the installation.

Download Driver for Brother 2040

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Empathy - GNOME Live!

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If you like this sort of thing, Mac4Lin finally reached 1.0.

SourceForge.net: Mac4Lin

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Indiana University Knowledge Base

I love these large university IT departments.  They don't mind sharing information.  If you click on Menus it gives you a list of topics to choose.



Tip:  Click the image above to visit the search page and don't forget to click on the down arrow in the Firefox search box to add this knowledge base to the search list!

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same ol song, new dance...