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Dell 1320c printer (network) and Brother MFC-8700 printer (USB) will not print from Ubuntu v8.1.

Asked by cruzer

I have a Dell 1320c printer that is installed and configured as a network printer with a dedicated IP address. The printer works with other Mac OSX, Windows XP and Windows Vista through wired and wireless connections. Since I have received no working remedy to this issue, I decided to USB connect a Brother MFC-8700 as the printer with driver was included and installed and seemed to be recognised. However, when sending a print job, the printer indicates "recieving data" but will never print.

I need specific detailed step-by-step instruction with getting these printers and printers in general with Ubuntu. Everything else has been a great experience but it's sad that getting a printer to work is such a pain.

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This question was originally filed as bug #351679.

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) said : 		#1

See http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Dell-1320c_color_laser.

The Brother MFC-8700 is not listed on openprinting.org, so no idea if it is supported on linux.

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) said : 		#2

Converted into a question instead of a bug.

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