Brother Laser Printer question in WinXP

[Slick5150]

I have a Brother HL-1240 Laser printer hooked up via the USB port. It prints fine, but if you leave it sitting there long enough and try to print again, it won't do anything. You have to shut the printer off and turn it back on, and then the print will go through. Anybody know what the deal is?

 

[Cuular]

I have the HL-1240N, connected to the network, and still have not gotten working drivers out of brother for that. How hard can it be to write a program that dumps print data across the network to a port on the printer? So for now I print through a win2k box on the network.

 

[Slick5150]

So am I to understand that this is a driver problem that is causing the problem? Anybody know a way to fix this? I seem to remember it working correctly at one point, but now it's requiring me to restart the printer if it's been sitting around for awhile.

 

[Slick5150]

Anybody? Anybody?

 

[wojak]

mine has a smilar problem, i have to unplug and replug the usb cable and it works fine.
Having USB on front helps

Robert

 

[Methos1995]

God. At least you people got it working in XP. I have an HL 1240 and run WinXP Pro. Tried connecting with both USB and Parallel cables and in both cases get "invalid access to memory location" error when installing the driver. I've tried both the native drivers and the newer one available on Brother's site. Any idea on how to resolve this?
Another strange problem is when I click on the "add a printer" link on the left in "Printers and Faxes", nothing happens. I have to go through control panel and "add new hardware" to add a printer; and even then I just get the error above. How did you guys get yours to work?

 

[Methos1995]

Bump for some help on my problem... or should I start a new thread?

 

[Slick5150]

Hmm.. Don't know what the deal is with your problem. XP Pro properly identifies and installs the dirvers for mine, it just has the problem explained above. I've installed both drivers (native, and from Brother's site) fine, and do not get the error you get. You may want to contact Brother about that, but I think from this thread we can conclude that their drivers kind of suck to begin with.

 

[Methos1995]

Still trying to get this to work. I noticed when I install the native drivers, the error message is "the specified port is unknown".