How to speed printing with a Brother HL-4040CDN

[samMD]

So I have switched entirely to linux I have all the windows programs I need running in Wine, but my only gripe is that in Windows I could print 20 pgs/min in Ubuntu I can currently print maybe 4 pgs/ 20 min...

I downloaded extra CUPS drivers from synaptic for my printer along with the LPD network driver when I first configured the my brother network printer.

Thanks

[sgosnell]

Go to the Brother website, and download the drivers from there. Follow the instructions on the site for installation.

[samMD]

I tried installing additional drivers via synaptic but i will try that as well

thanks

[samMD]

m trying to install the drivers directly for the Brother Site and I get the following after copying and pasting this code into the terminal: Command (for dpkg) : dpkg -i --force-all (lpr-drivername) I used sudo and without sudo


OUTPUT:

Quote:
sam@samdesktop:~$ sudo dpkg -i --force-all hl4040cdnlpr-1.0.3-1.i386.deb
dpkg: error processing hl4040cdnlpr-1.0.3-1.i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
hl4040cdnlpr-1.0.3-1.i386.deb
sam@samdesktop:~$ dpkg -i --force-all hl4040cdnlpr-1.0.3-1.i386.deb
dpkg: error: operation requires read/write access to dpkg status area
sam@samdesktop:~$


what do I do?

[sgosnell]

Use the full path to the .deb file, with sudo. It's probably not in the directory you're currently in. Use tab completion if it is in the current directory. Or use Nautilus, and navigate to the file, right-click on it, and select "Open with gdebi", if you have it installed.

[dvid]

With the draft option maybe you can print faster