[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #3468: Brother MFC7420 printer using wrong paper size after upgrade

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Jan 8 09:54:20 PST 2010


IgnorantGuru wrote:

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> Thanks - it may not be cups, but I had to start somewhere.  However, as
> for concluding it is a printer driver issue without looking at it, I don't
> know if that is the case since this driver has worked fine for so long -
> seems like a change in cups or perhaps ghostscript broke the driver's
> functionality (as has happened in the past).
> 
> Anyway I reported it here...
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17758?project=1&pagenum=3
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> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3468
> Version: 1.4.2
> Fix Version: Third-party

Once more looking into your attached files, I found that your brMFC7420rc 
states language=LANG_USA, and the brMFC7420func file forces paper size 
Letter for both LANG_USA and LANG_CANADA, presumably overriding what has 
been defined in the rc file for paper type.

Helge





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