usb printer problems please help

[iplayfast]

I've gone through two different printers in the last week, so I'm thinking it's not a printer problem but a local one.
Both printers are USB, and both are detected by the computer.
I'm now on a Brother DCP-7060D, that I want to use for printing scanning etc.
What I'm seeing is that the printer installs correctly, but when I try to print anything it nothing happens. (Printer doesn't even warm up).
The cups status says stopped.

Things I've tried is changing the /etc/cups/printer.conf ErrorPolicy to retry-job. Made no difference.
I haven't gotten to the scanning part yet. Printing in Linux used to be easy! What happened?

Please help.

[Vorlon]

If you are getting cups status of "stopped" then clearly something is wrong with cups.

Have you tried typing "/etc/init.d/cupsd start" from a text window?

Have you logged on to cups via the web interface and checked the printer status (http://localhost:631/printers/)?

What interface is listed under the printer?
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[iplayfast]

Well I discovered that the driver was installed in a different place. (I had to use rpm to install it, so ....) I just linked the installed place to the place where it normally would be installed.
Now I can print and it says that it went through. Only problem is nothing comes out of the printer.

I'm not sure if I'm getting any closer.

When I first tried scanning, things worked right away. Now I'm getting the "Error during device I/O" error.

[Vorlon]

I've had trouble with Brother printers and scanners. They offer Linux support, but for some reason their drivers are not in the normal foomatic database, so only work "easily" with Debian/Ubuntu and Redhat. <sigh>

Too bad, because they make good, inexpensive stuff, but I won't buy another Brother product again unless the exact model is in the database.
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