[conspire] danger at Fry's before 2100 , nota printer

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):

> re: don't buy cheapies from Fry's etc.
> 
> Looking at the today only special from them, its
> 120-50(MIR)=70 for a brother laser printer. Going I
> saw no boxes of them there but did see a sign at 2
> stores about a 2040 laser. 

> Looking at cups on my simplyMEPIS6.5 install I find no 2040 listing.

Linuxprinting.org is your friend:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2040

Partial quotation:

  Recommended driver:
  HL2060

  Works fine out of the box. slightly off center horizontally. It is
  possible to use alignmargins to adjust the margins by using X=-120,
  Y=-24, ml=14.0, mb=9.5, mr=10.8, mt=14.9. Resolutions up to 600x600 work
  fine, but 1200x600 and 2400x600 don't.
  PPD file for Brother HL-2040 [link]
  I can endorse it as a home monochrome laser [link to notes]

Notes are at http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtohl2040.html .