Greetings all; Hat in hand again, I've now spent about 6 hours fooling with localhost: 631, trying to configure a Brother J-6920DW printer. which cups can find several copies of because its got both usb and cat5 cables plugged in and has an ip4 address in my home network block. Its an unusual inkjet printer, feed paper sideways and can even do tabloid size paper, double sided, also has a quite accurate tabloid sized auto feed scanner for a top.
The admin->add (or modify) printer config at localhost:631 works with no reported errors, but send it a test page and it reports it can't find a printer to send it to around 10 seconds later, or in some cases sends it to /dev/null instantly, again w/o reporting any problems until its timed out looking for the printer. No sign of the process in jobs if it has sent it to /dev/null other that its display lights up like its been tickled or whatever. With all the crash and burn sessions I've had with bullseye, I'd have to go get the drivers anew from Brother if cups-everywhere can't do it. Is that what I have to do for this printer? FWIW No Brother printers show up at all in the ppd selection menu. Might be related: sane-find-scanner, run as root, finds the scanner in this MFC at: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9 [Brother], product=0x02f5 [MFC-J6920DW]) at libusb:003:005 but xsane can't find it. So both the printer and the scanner are on the injured list. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
