Very Off Topic

[Roger]

A friend has windows 7 professional sp1 on a Dell Vostro, 230 32 bit 
driving word 2007. No viruses reported, no infections, all antivirusware 
to update.
Until a few days ago printed perfectly to a HL 4040CN Brother laser.
We have tried everything I know. Ive searched microsoft, Brother Googled 
for errors. He has checked cables discussed with Brother who acted like 
idiots, couldn't solve the problem.
Windows forums seem very unhelpful so I have to defer to the Linux 
knowledge base.

Has anyone in Linuxland who is also using w7pro experienced printing 
issues, particularly with Brother laser and worked out what caused the 
failure.
Thanks, and apologies in advance for a non Linux issue.
Roger