On Tuesday 13 February 2018 03:47:50 Curt wrote: > On 2018-02-12, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Do adequately describe the various jobs it can do, by selecting > > the "printer" to send this job to, would need at least 8, individual > > profiles setup in the cups menu's at localhost:631/printers. > > Your problem description is inadequate (exactly what you do and what > happens or doesn't happen when you do it--error messages, etc). > > Have you flushed your cache and cookies in whatever browser you use to > perform cups administration? Have you tried creating a printer > instance from the command line? Have you stopped and restarted the > cups daemon while simultaneously throwing a prayer up (or down to the > devil is in the details)? > > Do you have 500+ print jobs pending (I have read there is or was a > default max jobs limit set at 500)?
No jobs pending. Error_logs don't seem to be where the browser can find them. I know where they are so thats NBD. I followed the plan I outlined in a previous message just now, successfully adding a 5th printer to do single sided glossy photo's and a test page had perfect color. I found that spaces are not allowed in the name, so used _ as hard spaces. The description suffers no such limitations. There are 2 or 3 more variations that would be handy to have available, and I am still trying to decode the actual effect of turning a color up and down, on plain duplex copy paper the color is I guess, doomed to be "pastel" and if you ask it to add a right edge header "pg 2 of 7" the 7, while not off the edge of the paper, is quite washed out. Copy paper, the 6 to 9 dollar a ream variety soaks up ink like a blotter. You do get color, but not what you put in. OTOH, I've had it nearly 3 years, and I'm still on the original color tanks. Due to the location internally of the usb input, putting it out of legal 5 foot reach for a usb cable, I am using the network port, but thats either running at 10 megabit on a gigabit network, or it takes lots and lots of data to print a page. I claims lots faster than I've ever observed in pages a minute, more like minutes per page. The scanner driver apparently try's several times to wake that up, the first 6 attempts have a bad tcp crc, which the scanner then ignores, as wireshark willingly tells me, then it changes tactics and sends good messages, so sane always has a 6 second startup lag. Go figure, maybe brothers attempt to cover all the bases. This is somewhat of an unconventional bird of a printer as the paper is fed sideways. So it does, I assume in the brother supplied drivers, a 90 degree page rotation when you tell it "portrait" in order to actually give a portrait format. The printhead actually sweeps up and down the length of the paper in every mode but tabloid, but you have to feed the tabloid into a slot in the rear, and keeping that free-hand feed straight is a trick. I've made a feed tray, but need a way to make it self supporting when its in position to feed a sheet, one at a time. I'll get something cobbled up eventually as the only time I use that mode is when printing the 8 to 12 up tabloid sized output from ps2poster, or whatever its called, generates from the rockhopper outout file. Thanks Curt. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
