[plug] Brother MFC-425CN Printer

[Adam Davin]

Hello Jim, 

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:07:51 +0800
Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've just successfully installed an MFC-425CN on my home network.
> It's the first time I've been able to print from linux.
> <dislocates arm patting self on back>
> Really was not that hard, actually.
> 
> The Brother website
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html is quite helpful,
> and was almost sufficient.  It says I should use the driver for the
> MFC-210C as they are still working on the 425CN driver. It works, but
> it seems to me that there was mention of this printer recently on the
> list, and that the 425CN driver is available.  I cannot find it
> though.
> 
> I had to locate it on my network by pinging.  Fortunately it was the 
> first one I tried (192.168.1.2).  By referring to the settings 
> automatically generated when I installed the Windows ME software I
> was able to come up with the URI lpd://192.168.1.2/lpr which works.
> 
> Is there a way to display all the hosts on a LAN?  I hope there is a 
> better way of addressing the printer since my system uses DHCP for 
> address allocation.  So far the modem has been very consistent in 
> assigning addresses, but something might cause a change...
> 

The printer will most likely have a "name" that is attached to it, much
like all your other machines have names. If your dhcp server picks up
the name of the machine when it assigns an IP address, you should be
able to use the name to reference the printer. Failing this you can
possibly set your dhcp server to assign the printer a static IP
address, or alternatively, specifically set a static IP address on the
printer itself and exclude this address from your dhcp server.

Hope this helps, 

Regards, 

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Adam Davin
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