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.