Should be fixed in cups-filters 1.0.40 and later: [...] CHANGES IN V1.0.40 - pdftops: Introduced new "hybrid" renderer: Here usually Ghostscript is used, but if the printer is a Brother, Minolta, or Konica Minolta Poppler's pdftops gets used. This is a quirk rule to work around bugs in the PS interpreters of the printers. [...] Till