Printer prints out raw cups data

[Helge Blischke]

Alan Rubin wrote:

> I have a Brother HL2250N printer connected via network to a computer
> running Slackware 13.37 using the drivers from the Brother website.
> 
> Now this printer works fine in Slackware 13.0 which has cups 1.3.11
> 
> With Slackware 13.37 which runs cups 1.4.6 the test page prints fine from
> the Cups setup page but if I try to print from an application in kde I get
> pages of text starting
> 
> <</HWMargins[17. 12. 17. 12./>>setpagedevice
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> 
> I assume this is the raw post-script file.
> 
> I also have a Brother MFC-7820N with a similar setup which works fine in
> 13.0 and 13.37
> 
> How do I troubleshoot this? Should I try and downgrade Cups?

I'd suggest to tell the printer to print a PostScript error page in case of 
errors. And I suspect that the slash in the setpagedevice statement you 
posted should be a closing square bracket (]). Unless this is a typo of 
yours, I think it is a typo in the printer's PPD.

Helge