On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> 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. > > > > Just very quickly found this bug that seems to be relevant to your case, > Jape. As you didn't describe the "garbled" condition of your printouts > with the "driverless" driver I can't be sure but it seems a fair guess. > > Apparently a resolution dpi error (reported as 600x2dpi--firmware > bug?--and set that way by cups in the PPD. Workaroundable by modifying > the PPD manually as explained in the thread).
Definitely a firmware bug; the printer is non-conforming. cups-browsed puts the incorrect information in the PPD because it queries the printer and that is what it is told. > BTW at the Brother site I think they're recommending updating the > firmware for this printer (maybe not for the reasons explicited here). > > HTH. > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868360 If the OP has his testing systems up-to-date, he should not be seeing this bug. -- Brian.
