Printer help

[Brian Chadwick]

tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
>
>
> We have a network printer that I have been printing to (via firefox 
> and lpr)
> for months (20 months or so).  Suddenly, it stopped working.  They may 
> have
> replaced the printer with a new one of the same kind.
>
> Lately, when I sent something to the printer othing happened at all.
> Afterwards, I went to http://localhost:631/ and did manage printers.
> I deleted the printer and added it back in.  Here are the details
> (we get pizza on Fridays and have it in a certain room where the printer
> is near, hence the name):
>
>     Description: By Pizza Room
>     Location: By Pizza Room
>     Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
>     Device URI: lpd://192.168.5.246/lqueue
>
>
> but now when I send things there, it prints the first line,
> and then about 40 blank pages (and the files I am printing
> are text and not one line of text with thousands of blank lines).
> I used Generic Generit Text Only.
>
> it is a Brother HL5250-DN printer.
>
> Any suggestions what I should do?  I even rpm'ed the
> lastest driver ( brhl5250dnlpr-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm).
> I have Centos 4.5
>
>
use System > Administration > Printer and change the driver to the right 
driver. Fedora has driver for the printer you mention.