After some more testing, I found that the CUPS backend for USB will write up to a point -- about 56kiB's worth -- then stall. This may seem odd, but could it be the fact that my printer is currently out of Yellow ink be causing it to fail printing? I tried setting it as mono color to force black and ...

I installed tcsh last night, it seems I didn't do step #9 so I did that just now. I had made a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/cupsd with /etc/init.d/cups and ran the wrapper before. In /usr/libexec/cups/filter is a link to the /usr/lib/cups/filter/br* file. There is a difference in the file layouts I ...

ok, then let's check some more:

usbfs in /etc/fstab, check ?
permissions of /dev/usb/lp*, check ? (crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 2008-01-27 10:29 /dev/usb/lp0)
well, have a look at the gentoo-wiki.com, if there's more tips to this "problem, check ?
search for brother printer cups ubuntu @ google ...

I'm sure cups spits out an error message (it was always the time until now for me):

what does tail -f /var/log/messages say ? (type this before you try to print something)

or output of syslog ?

/var/log/cups/*
(log files might also come in handy)

That's part of the problem, they don't say ...

17. cat test.txt | /usr/local/Brother/lpd/filterMFC5840CN
18. look, what it shows; correct errors (creating symbolic links)

especially step 17 is important, then you'll see if it prints or is missing a symbolic link of libraries

good luck !

Up to that point, I had already done everything and ...

I'm trying to get my MFC-240C to work, but all the suggestions thus far do not seem to help. CUPS recognizes the printer on the USB port; however, it does not seem to actually print anything. Any jobs sit as processing endlessly. The error log shows nothing.

My system is configured as amd64, and I ...