[cups.general] Ubuntu 11.10/BrotherHL2240D/ printer does not print any more

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Dec 12 06:36:30 PST 2011


On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:35:25 -0800
sk at skaiser.at articulated:

> Hello all,
> I have a problem with cups, and here it is surely only cups .
> ( The printer has printed in Ubuntu 11.04, it does not print any more
> in Ubuntu 11.10, and it does print on the same machine in Windows XP.
> So I think  we can definitely exclude any hardware error. I have set
> cupsd -F to see more in the logs, but I am not really the wiser by
> it. I try to print, cups lets me choose the properties of the
> printer, if it is a big job it carefully generates the spoolfile,
> then the job is declared printed without anything coming out of the
> printer. Can anybody tell me where to look for what exactly ?

I have had virtually the exact same problem using a Brother
MFC-9560CDW printer on a Free3BSD-8.2 system. Nothing but a blank page
is ejected. However, using LPR, a normal output is achieved. I finally
gave up trying to debug the problem.

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