This has been happening to me in Trusty (14.04) now for a while. Manually changing the printer to "Foomatic/hl1250" works fine, as I'm sure other non-Postscript drivers do, and "Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e" is marked as Recommended, but the Postscript one is always selected upon install and sometimes when just plugging it into a different port than usual. The Postscript driver still produces infinite blank pages.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to foomatic-db in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768727 Title: Brother HL 2040 prints infinite blank pages Status in “foomatic-db” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: cups I have a Brother HL 2040 Printer. It normally lives plugged into my dd-wrt router as a print server. It worked fine with Ubuntu 10.10. Recently I have been testing 11.04. As soon as I upgraded it stopped working. Now when I go to print something it just spits out blank pages, until it runs out of pages or I turn it off. I can still print fine from my ubuntu 10.10 netbook. I have tried plugging the printer in via USB to see if there was a problem with the print server. It still spits out blank pages. So I think it must be a regression in the printer driver in 11.04. I also have a HP CP1215, which also lives plugged into to my dd-wrt router. This works just fine with 11.04. So it is only some printers that have the problem. 1. glen@glen-desktop:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch) Release: 11.04 2. glen@glen-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy cups cups: Installed: 1.4.6-5ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.4.6-5ubuntu1 3. I expected my document to print. 4. My printer vomited blank pages. Version table: *** 1.4.6-5ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Apr 22 11:10:53 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330) Lpstat: device for Brother-HL-2140: socket://192.168.1.1:9100 device for HL-2040-series: usb://Brother/HL-2040%20series device for HP-Color-LaserJet-CP1215: socket://192.168.1.1:9101 device for Lexmark-Optra-Color-1200: usb://Lexmark/1200%20Series Papersize: letter PpdFiles: HL-2040-series: Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/Postscript Lexmark-Optra-Color-1200: Lexmark Optra Color 1200 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended) Brother-HL-2140: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/Postscript HP-Color-LaserJet-CP1215: HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=ff583bee-3011-454f-bfc6-1bc96b1f4eac ro splash quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG dmi.board.name: LP NF4 Series dmi.board.vendor: DFI Corp,LTD dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/06/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnDFICorp,LTD:rnLPNF4Series:rvr1.0:cvn:ct3:cvr: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db/+bug/768727/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
