I have a new Brother HL-2240 printer usb connected on Ubuntu 14.04.1. using the Brother HL-2170W Foomatic/ljet4 driver (the driver recommended by default). I tried printing pdf files from document viewer, files from abiword and Firefox but it only prints out blank pages.
From CUPS:
Description: Brother HL-2240 series
Location: bill-Unknow
Driver: Brother HL-2170W Foomatic/ljet4 (grayscale, 2-sided printing)
Connection: usb://Brother/HL-2240%20series?serial=E4N263380
Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided
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Mine started doing the same thing and the self test page is also blank. To fix it: