On 02/07/12 11:44, Da Rock wrote:
On 02/07/12 07:32, Jerry wrote:
OK Rock, if you think you can debug what is happening here, be my
guest. As shown in the subject line, this is a Brother MFC-9560CDW
printer. It works perfectly from Windows. Under FreeBSD, no so much.
When configured via CUPS 1.5.0, it will print a perfect test page. Now,
when I invoke the printer from an applications, only a blank page is
ejected. Most applications, offer both an LPR option as well as the
print to printer option. If I choose the LPR option, the document is
printed correctly. This is also true from the command line.
I either print to LPR or I use Windows to print the document. I have
attached the PPD file along with a lot of other information. It is the
latest one from Brother that is used on Windows. There is no native PPD
file available for FreeBSD. However, in the past I have tried Linux PPDs
that worked fine on Linux but failed on FreeBSD. What I fail to
understand is why it is printing via LPR correctly but not via CUPS
although the CUPS test page does print correctly.
When you say the test page prints correctly, is that the cups test
page or the test page out of the printer? Put it this way: does it say
"cups" on the page printed?
Have you tried using foomatic? From what I read you could use pxlcolor
filter.
As I also understand it, using a windows ppd on anything other than
windows (unless the manufacturer possibly made the programs with the
same name- which is virtually never) will never work. You may
_possibly_ have some success with Linux, but not likely. And your best
bet is to forget the manufacturers stupid proprietary printer
languages and stick with standards; ie. PCL, Postscript (which
specifically is cups native language).
If you need better quality (for, say, photos), then use gutenprint.
Bottom line: I think you're chasing the wrong dog. I don't think it
knows what you're talking about using BR-script3 and barfs. Switch to
PCL6 and it will work I'm pretty sure. And ppd's won't mix and match-
ppd's tell cups what to do, and cups then follows the scripts and
spits the output; if it doesn't know what the scripts are it will not
know what to do, and so far (I'm still going through it all) it looks
like it is just sending something the printer has no idea at all what
to do with and just spits paper out anyway.
Just noticed something: have you specifically got a postscript module in
your printer? Because that is what it is sending your printer...
I only just found that in the logs :)
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