Public bug reported: I have a Brother HL2270DW printer. I've been using it in Ubuntu since I got it a few years ago. It's always worked fine.
Lately, however, it has been inserting a blank page between pages in duplex jobs. For example, if I print two copies of a one-page document with duplex on, it used to print on both sides of one sheet of paper; but now it prints on one side, takes the paper back in as if to print on the back side, spits it out with the back side blank, and then does the same routine on a second sheet of paper. I think it started happening when I upgraded from Quantal to Raring. I haven't been printing a lot lately, so I haven't noticed it until now. I found Bug #1111292, which seems like the same bug, however 1) I have no "scale to fit" option checked or even available in any of the print dialogs I've been using, both in CUPS itself, in LibreOffice, and in Okular; and 2) I am having this problem with Raring, even though that bug indicates it should be fixed in Raring. On a hunch, I downgraded the cups-filters package (not the cups package) to the version from Quantal, then restarted CUPS, and the problem went away. I also had to install libqpdf8 from Quantal to fulfill the dependencies of that version of cups-filters. cups-filters: Installed: 1.0.24-2 Candidate: 1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1 Version table: 1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main i386 Packages 1.0.34-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages *** 1.0.24-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libqpdf8: Installed: 3.0.2-1 Candidate: 3.0.2-1 Version table: *** 3.0.2-1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status According to Bug #1111292, the problem should have been fixed in cups- filters 1.0.30. I'm guessing that either a) somehow the fix didn't make it into 1.0.30 after all; or b) Ubuntu's package somehow missed the fix, despite the newer upstream version; or c) it's regressed since 1.0.30; or d) this is a similar but unrelated bug. Thankfully I've been able to work around it by using the old version of the package, but who knows if that will work in Saucy. Please let me know how I can help fix this bug. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: cups-filters 1.0.24-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Sep 5 23:19:59 2013 Lpstat: device for DormNet: socket://10.1.23.45:9100 device for HL2270DW: lpd://192.168.0.102/binary_p1 device for laserdad: smb://OFFICE/DAD/LaserDad device for ML-1210: usb://Samsung/ML-1210 MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330 MarkForUpload: True Papersize: letter PpdFiles: HL2270DW: Brother HL2270DW for CUPS ML-1210: Samsung ML-1210 Foomatic/gdi (recommended) DormNet: Lexmark Optra E321 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) laserdad: Brother HL-5240 BR-Script3 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-27-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro SourcePackage: cups-filters UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-06-13 (84 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0PU073 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PU073:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: XPS M1330 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. ** Affects: cups-filters (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 raring third-party-packages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups-filters in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1221520 Title: Blank pages inserted in duplex print job Status in “cups-filters” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a Brother HL2270DW printer. I've been using it in Ubuntu since I got it a few years ago. It's always worked fine. Lately, however, it has been inserting a blank page between pages in duplex jobs. For example, if I print two copies of a one-page document with duplex on, it used to print on both sides of one sheet of paper; but now it prints on one side, takes the paper back in as if to print on the back side, spits it out with the back side blank, and then does the same routine on a second sheet of paper. I think it started happening when I upgraded from Quantal to Raring. I haven't been printing a lot lately, so I haven't noticed it until now. I found Bug #1111292, which seems like the same bug, however 1) I have no "scale to fit" option checked or even available in any of the print dialogs I've been using, both in CUPS itself, in LibreOffice, and in Okular; and 2) I am having this problem with Raring, even though that bug indicates it should be fixed in Raring. On a hunch, I downgraded the cups-filters package (not the cups package) to the version from Quantal, then restarted CUPS, and the problem went away. I also had to install libqpdf8 from Quantal to fulfill the dependencies of that version of cups-filters. cups-filters: Installed: 1.0.24-2 Candidate: 1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1 Version table: 1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main i386 Packages 1.0.34-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages *** 1.0.24-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libqpdf8: Installed: 3.0.2-1 Candidate: 3.0.2-1 Version table: *** 3.0.2-1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status According to Bug #1111292, the problem should have been fixed in cups- filters 1.0.30. I'm guessing that either a) somehow the fix didn't make it into 1.0.30 after all; or b) Ubuntu's package somehow missed the fix, despite the newer upstream version; or c) it's regressed since 1.0.30; or d) this is a similar but unrelated bug. Thankfully I've been able to work around it by using the old version of the package, but who knows if that will work in Saucy. Please let me know how I can help fix this bug. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: cups-filters 1.0.24-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Sep 5 23:19:59 2013 Lpstat: device for DormNet: socket://10.1.23.45:9100 device for HL2270DW: lpd://192.168.0.102/binary_p1 device for laserdad: smb://OFFICE/DAD/LaserDad device for ML-1210: usb://Samsung/ML-1210 MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330 MarkForUpload: True Papersize: letter PpdFiles: HL2270DW: Brother HL2270DW for CUPS ML-1210: Samsung ML-1210 Foomatic/gdi (recommended) DormNet: Lexmark Optra E321 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) laserdad: Brother HL-5240 BR-Script3 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-27-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro SourcePackage: cups-filters UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-06-13 (84 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0PU073 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PU073:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: XPS M1330 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. 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