Brother HL-5350DN reset and default web admin password

This is a repost of the content first published in August 2012, the original post was not readable on mobile devices but is still searched for on Google so we have re-created it.

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We encountered a Brother HL-5350DN printer today with no user display, after resetting the device to factory settings 

Power off the printer

Hold the GO button while powering on the printer

All LED's will light up, keep holding

When the Status LED goes out release the GO button

Press GO 6 times

We needed to use the web interface to set the IP address, the access details are below

Username = admin

Password = access

Change Default Printer Settings from 2 sided to 1 sided on 10.9

Annoyingly when you add certain drivers to a Mac, the default may say 1-sided but the pages still print as 2-sided. This can cause much frustration and although you can create presets, there is no way to actually change the default through those settings. However by following these few steps you can change the default settings. Please bear in mind, this only changes the default on the computer you are working on. If you have a Mac Server where the printer sits, then run these steps on that and it should set it all as default:

Annoyingly again on 10.9, access to the CUPS page is blocked, it is almost like Apple don't want to change anything these days. To enable it, open Terminal (Go to spotlight and search for it) and type "sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes" (without the quotation marks). You will need to enter the admin password when prompted.

Open a browser and in the address bar enter “localhost:631”

   

With the CUPS web page open, select the Printers tab and the printer you want to edit. In this case I select the Konica.

Then on the drop down menu titled “Administration” , change to "Set Default Options".

This will show a new page with some new headings (links).

In this case select Finishing Options. Scroll down the list until you see Print type. Change it from 2 Sided to 1 Sided.

Then scroll down the page until you see the Set Default Options button.

Click on this button to save the change. You will then be prompted to authenticate to CUPS.

Enter the account name and password of the Mac user, it needs to be an admin account. And then press the Log In button. You should then get a confirmation.

Printer Deployment using Group Policy Preferences

I was recently trying to deploy a printer using the Preferences feature of Windows Group Policy, the server sharing the printers was running Server 2008 R2 and the client Windows 7 Professional.

When logging on with a test account I was getting one printer of the five mapped, if I navigated to the server through Start > Run > \\Servername I could see all of the printers listed and double clicking on each one gave the message that a driver was being found and installed, the printer was then available for use.

Thinking I needed to install the drivers for the first time on each machine I logged off and on again. Only one printer again! Following a bit of research via everyones favourite search engine I discovered Point and Print Restrictions.

These restrictions can be used to allow only certain print servers to be used to provide printer driver downloads. This prevents untrusted or untested drivers from being installed. By default if Windows 7 is on a domain and doesn't have a native driver for the printer you want to connect to then you don't get the printer. This is fine if you are an admin as you can simply navigate to the server and install the printer manually, however for school staff and pupils we don't allow that freedom so we need to work around this.

1. Open Group Policy Management Console

2. Navigate to the OU you require to make settings for.

3. Right click and Select "Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here" Give your new policy a name.

4. Right click and select Edit for the new policy

5. Expand Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Printers

6. Right click "Point and Print Restrictions" Select Edit
7. Select "Enabled"

To set specific print servers to be used

1. Select "Users can only point and print to these servers"

2. In the text box type the fully qualified server name, if you require several entries separate them with a semi-colon (Also you can set to use any server in the Forest)

3. Select "Do not show warning or elevation prompt" in the "When Installing drivers for a new connection" box

4. Select "Do not show warning or elevation prompt" in the "When updating drivers for an existing connection" box

To set any forest print servers to be used

You can also set the point and print settings to allow any print server in the computers forest to serve drivers, in order to do this select the option "Users can only point and print to machines in their forest" also set the 'Do not prompt" options

By setting the 'do not prompt' options the printers will be installed automatically with no intervention. However this may give undesired results and impair your security, as always try on a test system before transferring onto your live network.

Now when preferences attempt to install printers, you will get all of your assigned printers after a short delay while the driver installs.