Sunday, September 5, 2010

Brother HL-2170W Slow Printing (Ubuntu)

Needs to be set with a generic driver:
  1. Select Add Printer
  2. From "Other Network Printers:" select LPD/LPR Host or Printer
  3. Under "Connection" put in: socket://:9100 (the IP address of the wireless interface on the printer)
  4. Fill in name, description, location.
  5. Sharing (can be ignored at this time)
  6. Make: select Generic, and continue
  7. Model: Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended)
  8. Finish adding the printer
The printing should go fast now even for the pages with lots of graphics in them.

1 comment:

Matthew said...

I had this same issue; thanks for the post. Any idea why this is happening?