Bug#950690: cups-filters: Printing fails with an error about Grayscale/monochrome conversion
On Wed 05 Feb 2020 at 20:05:27 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 17:19 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > Not really sure, but I don't think so. I mean, I'm using the PPD file
> > > from cups Debian packages, not anything from Brother.
> >
> > As root, what do you get for
> >
> > grep "*NickName" /etc/cups/ppd/<your_5250_ppd>
>
> *NickName: "Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3"
>
> The ppd is Copyright(C) 2005 Brother Industries, Ltd. so even if I have it
> from Debian, it still comes from Brother.
It is basically the same as the one I have from Brother.
> > Do you know the package name?
>
> Not really, but I's the one cups (either the web interface or system-config-
> printer) shows me when using make & model.
We'll let that go. It is something for me to sort out.
> > > > I did test how filtering went with it
> > > > and a file or two. I got no errors, but did get the warnings you
> > > > got. Then again, I do not have the printer to print the output
> > > > file to.
> > >
> > > Not entirely sure what is your workflow here, but with some details
> > > maybe I can try to reproduce what you did and see if something goes out
> > > of the printer?
> >
> > Later, certainly. I'd like to test with your PPD first.
>
> Attached.
Thanks. I used it (as root) with
cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/<my_ppd> -m printer/foo -e /etc/nsswitch > out.ps 2>log
There aren't any errors in the log.
Regards,
Brian.
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