CUPS prints PDF's as white page on Brother printer

[Paul Conklin]

ok, 2 questions...

1, are you sure this thing supports Postscript?  looking at the website it has BRScript which it says is some sort of an emmulation.  Just for giggles, i'd try using the pxlmono.ppd filter to see if it prints

2, if you run pdftops manually against it, and lp that file with -oraw to the device, does it print?

> Hi everybody!
>
> I hate to post questions just out of the blue, but I'm having bad luck
> with CUPS. :')
>
> I just got a Brother HL-5380DN network printer that I added to CUPS
> following Brother's own CUPS instructions, which were nothing out of
> the ordinary
> (http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_prn1c.html)
>
> Unfortunately, when I print a pdf using CUPS, I am getting only a
> single white page!
>
> Printing a text file seems to go fine, the CUPS self-test page from
> the administration web interface also works great.
>
> I tried the following:
> - use either lpd or IPP over HTTP
> - try the ppd from openprinting.org (exactly the same as the
> vendor-supplied ppd)
> - try generic Postscript driver (DOES print a pdf, but the margins are
> off, and I cannot pick a tray)
> - print some 'known good' PDF files from documentation (in case my PDF
> might have been corrupt) - same result
>
> Does anyone have an ideas for further debugging this problem?
> I've used other printers on the same system with no trouble.
>
> Printer: Brother HL-5380DN
> System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3, using CUPS 1.5.2 (also tried 1.5.0),
> cups-pstoraster 8.15.4_6.
>
> Some debug logs are at http://u.lfms.nl/cups_debug_logs.txt for those
> who are interested (my newsreader screwed up the layout...)
>
> Any tips welcome :)
>
> Kind regards,
> WH