Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy (SOLVED!)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:28:07 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> * On 2012 02 Mar 10:04 -0600, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:54:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>  
>> > CUPS offers three Postscript drivers in the Generic menu.
>> > 
>> > Generic PostScript Level 1 Printer Foomatic/Postscript 1 (recommended
>> > en) Generic PostScript Printer (en)
>> > Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript (recommended en)
>> > 
>> > I suppose I can try them out....
>> 
>> I'm not sure if any of those are going to work. BR-Script is not
>> PostScript, you better use the description file provided by the printer
>> manufacturer.
> 
> With the current CUPS 1.5.2 package in Sid, he'll likely wind up with a
> single blank sheet, if anything at all from the printer.  I've had to
> revert to the "Generic PostScript Level 1 Printer Foomatic/Postscript 1
> (recommended en)" to get printing working again on my Brother HL-5240
> and the current CUPS.  I have tried several Brother supplied PPD files
> with same result.

Ah! Yes, I remember... Could you finally discover the origin of the bug? 
Are just the Brother PPD files that fail with the new CUPS package?

> See bug # 660420 and 660348 (it's that bad that I know have them
> memorized).

Yup, not a nice memory at all ;-(

Anyway, a fix is more than desirable. Generic PS files can be a 
workaround but not a long time solution.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón