[cups] Guidance on troubleshooting printing to USB-connected brother laser printer

[Banibrata Dutta]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:49 PM Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Both Firefox and Evince convert this 4-page PDF into another PDF before
> sending to the printing system. You can choose to troubleshoot using
> this PDF (it will be one of the d* files) or the original 4-page PDF or
> both.
>
> You will have a PPD for the printer in /etc/cups/ppd.


Is there a way to know the right PPD file definitely ?


> Execute
>
>  sudo cupsfilter -p PPD_in_/etc/cups/ppd -m
> application/vnd.cups-postscript your4-pagePDF > out.ps 2>log
>
> This tests the non-vendor part of the filtering system. View out.ps.
>

View out.ps to check everything is visually in order ?

Read log. Comment.


Sure will.

However, I do have one more basic question. If every page of the PDF are of
different size (perhaps even non-standard page sizes), is CUPS filter able
to convert them all into desired page-size (such as - say A4 or Letter) ?

Thanks.