On Thu 03 Aug 2017 at 21:39:43 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started showing > a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in the CUPS > printer list and in the system-config-printer utility. > > You'd think that was good news, but we've been unable to find any way to > make the queue for this "driverless" instance of the printer function > properly.
It *is* good news. The printer was set up automatically, something people have been asking for for years. No non-free drives, either. A pity about the printout. That shouldn't happen, The cause would need to be looked at. Maybe the printer is non-conforming to IPP Everywhere. > The only way we can print with this printer is to do what we were doing > before the new "driverless" instance of the printer showed up. We add a > printer to the system via system-config-printer or the CUPS Web browser > dialog and deliberately select the Brother MFC-9320CW Foomatic or Brother > Script-3 driver. (That's not a typo. I'm deliberately choosing a different > model.) Both of those PPDs work. I have to provide a deliberately altered > name for this instance so users can tell it from the one that doesn't work. Brother provides software for this printer. http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=gb&lang=en \ &prod=mfc9340cdw_all \ &_ga=2.149781630.955111390.1501838613-23812213.1497304959&os=128 (URL line broken for readability). > The particularly annoying thing about this situation is that I cannot delete > the "driverless" instance of the printer from CUPS / system-config-printer. > The instant it is deleted, it is automatically re-detected and added back to > the printer list. But anyone who chooses to print to it is going to get a > distorted or garbled printout. > > I was able to set a policy in the instance so that only root can print to > it, so a regular user isn't going to waste time and paper. Still, it would > be nicer if I could turn off the advertisement that the printer and the > operating system is providing for the "driverless" instance. "CreateIPPPrinterQueues No" in cups-browsed.conf. Or switch off Bonjour broadcasting (AirPrint) on the printer. -- Brian.
