Bug#969169: cups: Driverless printing not working

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Fri 28 Aug 2020 at 15:04:41 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> Package: cups
> Version: 2.3.3-2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to get printing on a Brother HL-L2370DN to work,
> but all attempts failed so far.
> 
> I first attempted this the old way by adding a printer using the
> adminstration page, where it finds it 3 times:
> Brother HL-L2370DN series (Brother HL-L2370DN series)
> Brother HL-L2370DN series (Brother HL-L2370DN series)
> Brother HL-L2370DN series (fully driverless) (Brother HL-L2370DN series)
> 
> It's at least very confusing why it would show me that same
> printer 3 times. But it seems the first one is using dnssd, the
> 2nd ldp, and the 3rd ipp.
> 
> If you then try to install it, you need to select a driver
> where there are 2 options for the dnssd and ipp: ipp everywhere,
> or driverless, and just one for ldp: driverless
> 
> If you use the ipp everywhere driver, and then try to print
> something, it will not find the printer, the job just stays in the
> queue. (I think I tried this for the 3 types.)
> 
> If you try to use the "driverless" driver it will just say
> "unable to copy PPD file".
> 
> Looking at the wiki and other places on internet, I decided to
> remove the printer in cups, and install cups-browsed. I think I've
> changed the config to:
> CreateIPPPrinterQueues Driverless
> 
> (It would be really nice if the documentation says what the
> default is, and that is has a good default.)
> 
> Even though the cups admin page doesn't show a printer, when I try
> to print something it's showing me a "Brother-HL-L2370DN-series"
> printer. However, when I tried to print using that, only page
> after page of garbage comes out of the printer.

Thank you for your report, Kurt. Please provide the outputs of

  avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp
  ippfind -T 5
  lpstat -l -e
  lpstat -t
  lpinfo -v

Thanks,

Brian.