Printer prints out raw cups data

Alan Rubin alan at rubin.org.uk
Tue May 24 15:23:49 PDT 2011


http://www.rubin.org.uk/error2.log shows printing the same file once to an MFC-7820N printer which works fine and once to the HL2250N

> As far as input is concerned all I am doing is opening the text editor kate, typing qwert and trying to print it out.
>
> The error log is at http://www.rubin.org.uk/error.log
>
>
> > 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?
> >
> > Please post (an URL to) the offending input file and the portion of the cups
> > error_log containing the messages generated by this job (preferably after
> > setting
> > cupsctl --debug-logging
> > to get all the DEBUG messages into the error_log).
> >
> > Helge
> >
> >
>





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