On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 15:04:53 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Wed 05 Apr 2017 at 12:13:56 +0200, Olivier Aubert wrote: > > > I own a Brother MFC7420 printer (which requires proprietary drivers that > > use gutenprint). > > It has been working correctly with printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.10. Since > > the upgrade to > > 5.2.11-1+b1 (and idem with 5.2.11-1+b2), the printer stopped working, with > > the following > > message in /var/log/cups/error.log: > > > > [cups-deviced] PID 27449 (gutenprint52+usb) stopped with status 1! > > > > Similar issues can be found in Ubuntu [1] and ArchLinux [2]. > > > > I solved it for the moment by downgrading printer-driver-gutenprint to > > 5.2.10 > > > > [1] > > https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/printer-pauses-randomly-after-upgrade-to-16-04/5653 > > [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208475 > > Intriguing. The MFC7420 is not supported by Gutenprint! Where do the > Brother drivers enter the picture?
To make it clear - there are two questions here. One is explicit. The other (is the MFC7420 supported by Gutenprint?) is implicit. Regards, Brian.