First of all I'm just a longtime Ubuntu user trying to contribute a bit to Ubuntu... The pxlcolor driver is an free generic PCL6 driver provided by ghostscript. Your printer supports hardware resolution of 600x600 dpi (according to its specifications), the higher resolution 2400x600 dpi support uses Brother Color Advanced Photoscale Technology (CAPT) especially for images, this probably requires some extra PJL initialization specific for this printer (probably something like @PJL SET APT = ON but the exact command is only known by Brother). For this one would have to look at the output sent to the printer by the Windows PCL driver (reserve engineering), since I don't have this printer that will be difficult to test. Limiting the pxlcolor driver for your printer to 600x600 dpi is the easiest and is sufficient for text printing. And if you want the higher resolution you can use the free Brother BR3 Script driver.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to foomatic-db in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377177 Title: Brother MFC9840CDW pxlcolor driver fails to intialize for bitmap printing Status in “foomatic-db” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: printer driver: Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/pxlcolor (color, 2-sided printing) Result when trying to print sth. with it: " PCL XL error Subsystem: TEXT Error: IllegalBitmapResolutionSegment Position: 9 " reproducible: always ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Oct 3 16:08:17 2014 Lpstat: device for MFC9840CDW: socket://10.0.0.20:9100 device for MFC9840CDW_pxlcolor: socket://10.0.0.20:9100 MachineType: Packard Bell DOTS E2 Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: MFC9840CDW: Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/Postscript MFC9840CDW_pxlcolor: Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/pxlcolor ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-36-generic root=UUID=16250f8e-725d-430c-8ccc-95387d8f9ba7 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/22/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Packard Bell dmi.bios.version: V3.16(DDR3) dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: SJE02_PT_E dmi.board.vendor: Packard Bell dmi.board.version: V3.16(DDR3) dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Packard Bell dmi.chassis.version: V3.16(DDR3) dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPackardBell:bvrV3.16(DDR3):bd04/22/2011:svnPackardBell:pnDOTSE2:pvrV3.16(DDR3):rvnPackardBell:rnSJE02_PT_E:rvrV3.16(DDR3):cvnPackardBell:ct10:cvrV3.16(DDR3): dmi.product.name: DOTS E2 dmi.product.version: V3.16(DDR3) dmi.sys.vendor: Packard Bell To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db/+bug/1377177/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
