The Samsung is ML-1865 (not wireless). I decided to try to get the Brother HL-2140 working. All the install of the drivers shows up without any issues. The os correctly identified the printer and installed the appropriate driver. However, not when I ask it to print, it spits out the correct number of pages, but they are all blank! Nothing in the printer properties points to any problem, though. So far I've just used the laptop in a wired network - I still have to get the wireless working. I do recall that there have been issues with the Broadcom nic's in Dell laptops when running any flavour of linux. So if this is still an issue, I have a spare Intel wireless nic which I will swap in (hardware is my forte). Saturday, October 29, 2016, 4:29:47 PM, alp [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 03:19:34PM -0400, Howard Krakower wrote: >> I first installed Ubuntu, but it would not recognize her model of >> printer (Samsung ML-1865) - all it would print out said that it was >> the wrong driver. > The foomatic database doesn't include it. > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1865W > Which driver exactly? >> So after a couple of fruitless days working on that, >> I wiped the drive and installed Mint. I tried using a Brother HL-2140 >> printer - it installed the driver correctly, > The proprietary one, or another one that wasn't mentioned below? > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2140 > What other potential dependencies have you and have you not installed? >> Then I installed OpenSUSE, which had always been my favorite flavour >> of linux, mainly because it works well for wireless networking for >> Dell computers. > Shouldn't matter what distro, as long as you have a decent kernel, and > a non-insanely out of date or built version of wpa_supplicant… >> Attaching the Samsung HL-1865 printer, > HL or ML now? >> FWIW, when the printer was attached to a Windoze notebook the test >> pages printed out fine. > Printer drivers are usually developed for Windows first. > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7859 / Virus Database: 4664/13304 - Release Date: 10/29/16 -- ZedNet Technologies visit us at http://www.zed.net