Brother HL-5250N help

Ross Vandegrift ross at kallisti.us
Thu Mar 22 17:06:23 PDT 2012


Hello,

Strictly-speaking, this may be off-topic.  But since I haven't received a response on the foomatic lists, I'll re-ask here.


I am running CUPS 1.5.2 and foomatic 4.0.13 from Debian with a Brother
HL-5250DN.  As of these releases, I am unable to print anything, with
any driver my printer supports.  As of a year or two ago, all features
of this printer worked perfectly.  Since then, it's fallen apart:

* Postscript causes the printer to output blank pages
* Brother BR-Script 3 causes the printer to output blank pages
* pxlmono takes about 10-15 minutes per page, and the output is is blown
up too large.
* lj5gray produces output that is strangely small and doesn't support
duplex printing.

How can I get my printer working again?

Ross





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