Very Off Topic

[Les Howell]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 20:37 +1100, Roger wrote:
> 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

Have you tried a live CD on the system to make sure it is a windows
issue?