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2023-03-24 6:55 pm
Sorry about this, but it feels like all I do is ask you guys for help. But I had a brother who died, branded with Samsung for some reason? model: Xpress M2022 without wifi, so you had to hook it up using a cable, USB. All of a sudden my computer refused to recognize the printer. I tried with another USB-cable. Another PC with Windows 11 and 10. And I tried it on my phone and Linux Mint, both on the PC as well as on my Raspberry Pi. But no luck. It's dead Jim!
But then it hit me, like a West German Iron
to the head! This printer was most liklely 10+ years. I really never used it. But when you need a printer it is great to have one! But do they also have a Lithium battery hidden somewhere deep inside that I could change and have it working again?
2023-03-24 8:01 pm
@apeshaft I don't ever remember seeing a battery inside a printer. What interface is it, USB or RS232 or really old now Parallel?
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
Topic starter
2023-03-24 10:10 pm
It uses a usb-cable USB-A to USB-B, the one the looks like a square. It's so much that the printer stopped working. It's more like, WHY? I've never moved it since I bought it and printed like 10-100 pages each year. Or honestly, I've don't have a clue how many pages I print each year! 🙂
I've aldready bought a used one on the Swedish version of Craigslist (I guess?) Paid a girl who was moving 300 Skr (US $30) and It got wifi, flatbed scanner and better in general. A Brother dcp-1610w.
But the fact that Windows 10, 11 and Linux Mint and Ubuntu dosen't recognize the printer as a printer or anything at all is bugging me. So my wild guess is that it's got something to do with the green controller card in the shared album I linked to. One of the pictures is taken using my USB-microscope so you can take a look at a random section of the controller card. 🙂
2023-03-24 10:26 pm
@apeshaft Does the self test work?
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
2023-03-25 12:38 am
Hi @apeshaft,
I have never heard of, nor can I think of a reason why, a printer would have a battery.
The simplest explanation is that it could be broken, but even if it is not, a problem with one that is that old, is that it may not be supported with drivers anymore. Before spending too long on it, I would make sure there is a driver available for your prefererred computer operating system.
Best wishes, Dave
2023-03-25 2:30 am
@davee @apeshaft Check the Linux/OpenSource world, they will very likely have a driver or there are repositories on the net of old software and I wouldn't be surprised old drivers as well. Good luck.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.