Landscape printing using CUPS 1.42 on Brother 6050 is blank

[Tim Underwood]

> > Trying to test a variety of printers, and I've run across an issue with the Brother HL6050DN printer.
> >
> > When I print a test document using the following command:
> >
> > lpr -P <queue> -o media=Letter -o landscape -o cpi=17 -o lpi=8 -# 1 <textfile>
> >
> > The printer only prints blank pages (portrait prints fine).  If I select Legal papersize, the printer correctly indicates it needs legal (no tray for legal), and putting legal paper in the manual tray feeds the paper - but again, nothing prints for landscape.
> >
> > Interestingly - it feeds the correct number of pages for whatever the textfile is, but landscape always prints a blank page for each page.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> More testing - I'm beginning to wonder if there is an issue with the filters.  When I created the queue, I used a basic lpadmin command:
>
> lpadmin -p test -E -v socket://1.1.1.1 -P someppd.ppd
>
> What is interesting is that looking into the /etc/cups/printers.conf file for this printer (after modifying the printers.conf to point to a file, instead of the printer), it has only 3 filters specified:
>
> <Printer test>
> Info test
> MakeModel Brother HL-6050D/DN BR-Script3
> DeviceURI file://tmp/x.out
> State Idle
> StateTime 1332947444
> Type 8433748
> Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
> Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops
> Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 -
> Accepting Yes
> Shared Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> OpPolicy default
> ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> </Printer>
>
> There is no text filter.  One would presume it would be called automatically.  Yet when I use the above entry and see the output in /tmp/x.out, it is just the raw text of the file, not postscript.  I can manually call /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (I'm on RHE 6) and run it with my text file, and I get the expected postscript output.
>
> Also - what I notice when looking at HP printers (which DO work correctly), they have the following filters:
>
> Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
> Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip
> Filter application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip
>
> So, I'm assuming that something within the PPD file informs the system which Filter(s) should be used - but I'm not seeing it.  Also - when I change the DeviceURI of one of the HP printers to output to a file - I get the expected Postscript.
>
> So - it appears that the Brother PPD (or whatever) is not telling cups to use texttops for text files.
>
> How can I correct this?

Correction - I started all over redefining the printer, etc.  And when I output to a file I AM getting postscript.  HOWEVER, the output seems to be just downloading a couple of fonts in "uuencode" format - and my actual file output is nowhere to be seen in the output file.  Due to the nature of the preceding output for the "uuencoded" data, it certainly appears to be downloading some Bitstream fonts ("monospace bold" and "monospace") for the 255 character character set.  My text output from the text file is nowhere to be seen in that file.