Re: CUPS & Brother HL-1450: junk page appearing before every printout.

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (29/01/04 16:46), Adam wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing with the following packages installed (from dpkg
> -l):
> 
> ii  cupsomatic-ppd                20040102-1
> ii  cupsys                        1.1.20candidate6-6
> ii  cupsys-client                 1.1.20candidate6-6
> ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint       4.2.5-6
> ii  lpr                           2000.05.07-5
> 
> I used the CUPS browser interface to install a Brother HL-1450 laser
> printer on the parallel port with the driver "Brother HL-1450 Foomatic
> hl1250 (recommended)".  I've also tried the others relevant drivers and
> replacing lpr with cupsys-bsd, and I always get the same problem: every
> printout is preceded by a sheet with some letters (usually "d a b") spread
> across the page near the top.  This also happens with printouts from
> another computer over Samba.
> 
> Is this a bug or have I misconfigured something?
It looks as though you may be a package or two light ;)  I used the
following very useful guide for setting up printing:

http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html

HTH

Clive



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