- #Find software brother hl 2140 printer install#
- #Find software brother hl 2140 printer drivers#
- #Find software brother hl 2140 printer driver#
- #Find software brother hl 2140 printer manual#
- #Find software brother hl 2140 printer password#
You now have a port that the Brother Custom setup can see. If you use OneNote/Document Image Writer, don’t forget to reset this to its proper port before exiting.
#Find software brother hl 2140 printer driver#
When you proceed, the device won’t be found at the ip you entered since you haven’t installed the printer driver yet! Choose PRINTSERVER. Changing it makes no difference to what you see when you browse for printers in Explorer. You can accept this, or change it to something else. This automatically generates a port name based on the ip you entered. Enter its ip address, 192.168.1.10 in the Git’s case. On the Properties dialog, choose the Ports tab.
#Find software brother hl 2140 printer install#
If you have no printers installed, then install any old printer so you have a device where you can choose Properties. If you have a “printer” such as OneNote, or Document Image Writer installed, then you can right-click that and choose Properties. So, before running the Brother setup, you need to create a TCP/IP port to print to. The problem is that your printer is on the other side of the print server and so is invisible to the network browser. This allows you to choose a Custom install that then allows you to browse the network for a printer.
#Find software brother hl 2140 printer drivers#
The driver CD that comes with the HL-2140 doesn’t contain drivers that Windows can directly use, so you can’t just Add a printer in Explorer. None of this fiddle-faddling would have been necessary if the print server had come set to 192.168.1.10, which is what the instructions say it is set to! Changed the ip of the print server to 192.168.1.10, successfully this time, then changed his machine back to 192.168.1.100. So, the Git changed the ip of his machine to 192.168.0.100 temporarily while he did this. The machine telling the print server to make changes has to be on the same subnet. Fortunately, he doesn’t need to administer the router, and it can always be reset to the factory defaults and set up again.Īn email to TP-Link generated a response in less than 24 hours (thanks Lina Zhou). Unfortunately, the Git set an obstacle in his own path by forgetting to record his username. If you want to foil a hacker, changing the username to something hard to guess places two obstacles in their path, rather than just one. The default username for the router is Admin other routers use Administrator.
Actually, it’s the username that the Git forgot he uses only a limited range of passwords.
#Find software brother hl 2140 printer password#
The only thing preventing this is the loss of the username & password to administer the router. Of course, the Git could have changed the ip addresses of the router and the six machines to be on the same subnet as the print server. Running setup from the netbook running 32-bit Win7 also failed to persuade the device that, yes, The Git really, really wanted a different ip. Running the setup from one of the two WinXP machines on the network also failed to alter the default ip. The software accepted the Git’s change, but for some odd reason, refused to save the change, reverting to the default. In order to be seen on the subnet 192.168.1.xxx, the ip of the server needed to be changed to 192.168.1.10. The software setup ran on the 64-bit Win 7 machine, detected the print server on ip 192.168.0.10 and the gateway on 192.168.1.1. The Git set the device up as per the enclosed instructions that, as seems usual these days, are set in tiny type, so needing a magnifying glass to read. The Git’s is a TP-Link TL-PS110U and cost all of $AU60. This little device takes input from your switch, or router, and sends it to the printer. A Google search informed me that some HL-2140 users had no problems others solved the problem with a print server.
You could browse to the printer in Network Neighbourhood, but printing to the share didn’t work. Sharing it across the Windows network didn’t work. There was really only one problem that I finally got around to fixing this week.
#Find software brother hl 2140 printer manual#
The HL-2140′s manual feed is primitive compared to the LaserJet, but has seen little use. While the build quality wasn’t up to the standard of the HP, the build quality of the current low-end HP printers isn’t up to the standard of the 5P either. It was much faster than its predecessor and has twice the resolution. Despite some misgivings due to memories of unavailable spare parts for Brother printers in the early days of computing (9-pin dot matrix days), the Brother was set up and making a grand job of printing in minutes.
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