Printer prints out raw cups data
Alan Rubin
alan at rubin.org.uk
Wed May 25 10:04:25 PDT 2011
I think I have a solution to this of sorts.
Based on these discussions
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113962
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6636061.html
I have downgraded file to version 5.04. The idea is that the later version did not recognise the postscript produced the filters and processed it as a text file. This appears to have fixed the problem.
> 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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