PPD drivers for HL-5270 deny printing jpg, tif

[Helge Blischke]

E. Gerlach wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Brothers PPD file for HL-5270 is not able to print images. LaserJet4
> with PCL5e works. But LaserJet4 does not work with different Tray's/
> feeders. Who knows a solution?
> 
> Background:
> I testes two PPD-driver for HL-5270 Laser printer (Brother) and both
> don't allow printing images. I have a original brother PPD from 2008 and
> the latest PPD-file from brother.de -> support. I printed using gwenview
> or kuickshow in KDE. With both applications the job reaches the printer
> and the printer works and works. The files are very small, 100 kB or
> less, primitiv black/white scans. The printer queue ist blocked by such
> a job. It seems that the HL-5270 does not understand postscript. The
> HL-5270 has 32MB RAM.
> Using LaserJet4 foomatic with PCL5e and the files are printed fine. But
> I need to send the jobs to different Tray's/ feeders of HL-5270. Who
> knows a solution?
> 
> I use CUPS 1.4.4-7 (debian squeeze).
> 
> thx
> Ekkard

Please post (an URL to) the PPD you use for that printer.

Helge