Brother MFC-240C won;t print

Hi All
Have recently rebuilt Mac Mini (10.4.11) and trying to add a new printer Brother NFC-240. Recognises the printer (can see cartridge levels etc) but when I print anything it simply disappears. If I look into the completed jobs tab they do show as jobs in there. Printer itself is working as a copier etc.
If anyone has any ideas where to go form here, would much appreciate! Have deleted printer anumber of itmes, and used both Brother driver and native mac driver to no avail.
Thanks

Hi petesing, and a warm welcome to the forums!
If you haven't done this yet, try this & let us know...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions. Reboot when done and try setting up the printer again.

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1 translate 0xb80b6b00 0xb8000000 + 748288
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