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

[Brian Potkin]

On Mon 28 Sep 2020 at 21:05:13 +0530, Banibrata Dutta wrote:

> 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 ?

Open the file and look at the first few lines.

> > 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 ?

Is the content the same as what went in?

> 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) ?

I am unsure that this is relevant to the investigation at hand.

Cheers,

Brian.