2D Paper Printer

You are standing at the 2D printer station at Noisebridge. You see a large format inkjet printer, an inkjet all-in-one and a laser printer. EXITS: Hackitorium, Front, Print Shop, 3D printers >

This page is about 2D paper printers. Are you looking for 3D Printers or the Vinyl cutter?

We have a discussion channel on Slack named #printerbridge.

Physical Location

Printers and printing materials can be found in the printing room on the ground floor, near the door.

Donating used or broken printers

Printers are a maintenance liability. Please donate used or broken printers to eWaste SF at 2915 16th St. or Recology at 501 Tunnel Ave. instead.

Canon MF642C

Working as of 2022-05-11 Accessible through the Noisebridge Cap Wifi. Prints letter size. If it's not working, try installing and reinstalling the printer (Systems Preferences > Printers and Scanners on MacOS).

Brother HL-L-8360CDW color laser

Working as of 2023-06

More info on its own wiki page.

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Below information to be revised.

Print Server

The 2009 iMac at the front desk is set up as a print server using Mac OS's built-in Print Server (AirPrint: How to Wirelessly Print From Your Smartphone or Tablet). Right now it's just AirPrint. Google Print or whatever should also be installed. Perhaps you, good Sir, Madam, or Xir, could install, configure, and document that fact here!

The Printers listed below should show as available on the Noisebridge Network.

If not, try installing Bonjour/ZeroConf on Windows/Linux, or simply print your file from the iMac by downloading from a Cloud service or transferring using File Sharing locally (SMB or AFS), or check the iMac & make sure the printers are on.

Black and white printers

Brother HL-5470DW

Small laser printer. It eats toner and trees. It prints double sided. If you print text of greater than 1 page, *use the double sided option*. The you need half the number of pages! If you use it please consider throwing some money into the donate bin.

• Drivers: Brother HL-5470DW
• Remanufactured Toner @ Monoprice ~$20, "Brother TN720/TN750"
• How to Replace Toner
• drum unit, DR720 @ Monoprice Drum units last years even with copious printing—replacing this part should be a last resort.

Paper: Please get some paper and place in the printer supplies cabinet under the printers.

Linux

Linux Drivers Get both the lpr and cupswrapper, and the printer should show up with it's model. If you're running a Ubuntu, for drivers try sudo apt-get install brother-cups-wrapper-laser brother-lpr-drivers-laser, but likely you will need the specific drivers from the link above as the 5470DW isn't included as of this note.

Perfect support on Linux In Gnome Printer settings, type in the printer's IP address (10.20.0.145 as of this revision) and select JetDirect Printer and select the "Brother HL 5370DW/Postscript" driver.

Desktop inkjet printers

Epson WF-7620

Status: Working as of 2019-05-02.

This all-in-one color inkjet printer consumes Epson 252 or 252XL cartridges.

Manual: https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd3/cpd39381.pdf

Epson WF-2630

Status: Not working as of 2019-08-12.

Consumes Epson 220 or 220XL cartridges. Firmware recently updated. Reporting low color ink, but not printing anything on test pages.

Manual: https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd4/cpd40876.pdf

Large-format roll printers

These printers consume paper off of a roll of a certain width.

Supplies for these printers are expensive; we ask that you donate $1 per square foot when using these printers. Here are couple of online calculators that can tell you the price of your print.

Epson Stylus Pro 4880

Page: Epson Stylus Pro 4880 Status: Not working Aug 12, 2019. It's reporting "No MNT Tank" and "Error 0002000B". May need a Firmware update (doesn't show in Mac utility). May just need Cartridge #5 replaced or refilled: Light Black.

This color inkjet printer uses an 18-inch roll of paper (i.e., prints will be 18 inches by whatever the perpendicular dimension of your print is).

Epson SureColor T5270D

Page: Epson SureColor T5270D

This color inkjet printer uses a 36-inch roll of paper (i.e., prints will be 36 inches by whatever the perpendicular dimension of your print is).