Brother MFC-235c printing problem

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Jun 23 05:03:13 PDT 2011


Ba wrote:

> Hello there!
> 
> I've just installed my Brother MFC-235c using the drivers from the brother
> site:
> 
> 
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#MFC-235C
> 
> The rpm's are succesfully installed:
> 
> [root at Fangorn Sauron]# rpm -qa | grep -e 235
> mfc235ccupswrapper-1.0.1-1.i386
> mfc235clpr-1.0.1-1.i386
> 
> Also the printer shows up in the cups web interface:
> 
> ▼ Queue Name ▼	Description	Location	Make and Model	Status
> MFC235C	MFC235C		Brother MFC-235C CUPS v1.1	Idle
> 
> The problem is, that when I start a print job, the status automatically
> goes to completed. The printer doesn't print anything:
> 
> ▲ ID ▲	Name	User	Size	Pages	State	Control
> MFC235C-6  	Test Page  	root  	1k  	Unknown  	completed at
> Thu 23 Jun 2011 12:11:43 PM CEST
> MFC235C-5  	Test Page  	root  	1k  	Unknown  	completed at
> Thu 23 Jun 2011 12:07:22 PM CEST
> MFC235C-4  	Administration - CUPS 1.4.6  	Sauron  	500k  	Unknown  
> completed at Thu 23 Jun 2011 12:01:57 PM CEST
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

Presumably the special filter from brother (o be seen as the value of the 
*cupsFilter: keyword in the printer's PPD) is a shell script.

Perhaps you could post (an URL to) both the printer's PPD and the 
cupswrapper filter.

Helge





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