Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:18:24PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: ... >> This is the printer: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828113225 >> >> It was on sale at the time (August of this year) for $349.99 + tax >> with free shipping. We're really pleased with it, and it's quite a >> bit cheaper to operate than an inkjet printer -- not to mention much >> more dependable! >> >> Rod ... > I have an HL-5250DN which has been great, but recently after > printing certain PostScripts it will start saying IGNORE DATA and > it was printing PostScript unrendered, have you seen anything > like that? I had to do a reset, which turned out not to reset > full duplex or draft mode settings which also surprised me.
No, haven't experienced that. > Also, are you using CUPS, lpr, or what? Using CUPS. Brother provides .deb packages for an "lpr driver" and a "cupswrapper driver" for the HL-4070CDW, both of which need to be installed. There used to be a different CUPS driver that I think used some sort of Postscript emulation that's built into the printer, but I found it much too slow and it now seems to have disappeared from Brother's site. > I have been using lpr > with no drivers or anything on linux and ipp works on windows > with the windows Brother PostScript driver, both over ipv6. I > wish ppdfilt worked with the bsd lpr that comes with debian, its > pretty nice and simple otherwise. As tldp Pringting HOWTO says > "ppdfilt is best used with an option accepting lpd system" and > bsd lpr is not but lprng is. However lprng is not maintained > anymore, does anybody know of another alternative? Thanks. > Nick Looks like Brother has packages for your printer: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#HL-5250DN Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
