This usually happens when nozzles are clogged. to resolve this you can
Run a print head nozzle check to see if any of the nozzles are clogged.
Then clean the print head, if necessary. If a blank page exists in a
document you are printing and you want to skip printing it, select the
Skip Blank Page
Michael, can you open a new bug report and attach the QuarkXpress PDFs
which do not print on stock 12.04 to the new bug report? Thanks.
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Not being over sensitive, but:
"What is discussed here is the broken postscript code that makes Brother
printers to fail completely."
The Postscript is *not* broken, it is demonstrably valid. But it hits a
breakage in the Brother printer - the problem is with the printer, not
the Postscript.
Chr
Michael, if I understand you right you have some other issue, some kind
of pdf's are not properly handled. What is discussed here is the broken
postscript code that makes Brother printers to fail completely. Did I
understand you right?
I installed the release version of Xubuntu 12.04 and printing
I was able to fix my own printing issues in Ubuntu 12.04.
http://unquietwiki.blogspot.com/2012/05/fixing-pdf-printing-problems-on-
ubuntu.html
Procedure
1. In a terminal, sudo bash or login as root.
2. Make the /usr/lib/cups/filters/pdfwash file with your favorite text editor
(nano or leafpad wo
CUPS 1.5.0 & Brother printers: I could print PDFs from a vendor website,
using Chrome; not so with CUPS 1.5.2 on 12.04. Even the latest nightly
for Xubuntu fails to print said PDFs on a Brother 4040; vendor says they
print fine on HP. Is anyone having any issues with PDF printing on
Brother or othe
icb410, can you continue with your text file problem on bug 93,
reported by Bruce? Please follow all the instructions for testing and
investigation of the problem which me and Chris (cliddel) have posted
there? Thanks.
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I can confirm and reproduce Bruce's problem with gedit. Otherwise things
seem to be working on the HL5250
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By the way, I have uploaded foomatic-filters 4.0.14 and with this
version also printing on Brother printers with "Foomatic/Postscript"
drivers works, but you need to choose drivers/PPDs explicitly for
Brother printers (manufacturer "Brother").
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Thank you all for confirming that this problem is solved now.
Bruce, for your text file printing problem please open a new bug report
and follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and
"Capturing print job data" on
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After updating to today's fixes (including cups-filters 1.0.5), I was
able to print .ps and .pdf files to my Brother MFC8680. I was also able
to print a test document from abiword.
However, there were problems when I attempted to print a text file from
gedit. The page header (giving the file nam
As expected, I can confirm that it works on MFC-9840CDW too.
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I can also confirm a working fix on DCP-9010CN, thanks to all who worked
on the fix.
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Update works great on Brother MFC-9460CDN! Thanks.
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Just downloaded fixes. Printer works! Sorry I, myself, wasn't around to
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* New upstream release
- cups-filters 1.0.5 release
- pdftops: Added insertion of workaround PostScript code for printers
with bugs in their PS interpreters (LP: #
I have fixed the problem in cups-filters upstream (1.0.5) now. A Precise
package is on its way.
Thank you very much for all your work on fixing this, Chris, Robert, and
zanaga!
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Till,
Yes, directly after the "%!..." line is fine.
In fact, if you can, it would be nice if you could include an extra
comment just before these additions (for this and the Kyocera bug) with
a note about why the extra lines are there - it might save come
confusion debugging future issues.
Chri
Chris, Robert, and zanaga, thank you very much on finding the fix for
this bug, opening the way for a great Precise LTS!
Chris, I can add these three lines right to the beginning? Directly
after the "%!..." line (would be the best place to get reliably past the
PJL header)?
No problem that we hav
That's great, thanks for all the help, especially from Robert and
zanaga, really appreciate it.
Till,
I'm afraid it's a 3 lines, rather than just the one this time - to get
this working, I prepended the following to the file:
/currenthalftone {//null} bind def
/orig.sethalftone systemdict /seth
Till,
The command was:
> lpr -P Brother-HL-5250DN-series -oraw printout-12.04.ps
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 20:32, cliddell <950...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> If someone finds this test works, could others try as well, please? This
> is such a strange problem, it would be good to get it confirmed on more
> than one Brother printer.
This version works on DCP-9010CN. So one step
icb410, if you have done "lpr -oraw" it should be fine.
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Works on MFC-9840CDW, prints out Ubuntu test page, color.
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That last printout-12.04.ps (#48) printed out ok for me using the
Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3 driver and an lpr command (sorry don't know
the right address and port of the printer, I connect with dnssd).
Ian
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So, I looked at the logic in the Postscript prologue, and I may have
been a bit pessimistic in my assessment above - it really depends on how
"clever" Brother have been in their implementation of this
"feature".
Once again, can someone/anyone run this file:
http://www.ghostscript.com/~chrisl/prin
Folks,
A user joined us on IRC, and helped me further narrow the problem.
It turns out the Brother printers really do seem to dislike the
currenthalftone operator - but instead of giving an error, which is the
"correct" thing to do, it just chokes and spits the page out.
So we have the core of t
Richard,
So, the line immediately after the "here 5" print is attempting to
retrieve the currently defined halftone for the printer. I wonder if
Brother have some "clever" halftone tech that they hobble the
currenthalftone operator..
This is the same test file as above, but with the line tryi
Chris, and anyone working with Chris on the solution: I highly recommend
to use something like IRC or at least to refresh the bug report page
frequently, as e-mail notification by Launchpad is delayed by around 15
minutes, to collect several rapid-fired contributions in one
notification. Chris is "
Chris,
Get to "here 5"
Will check web interface and see if it has this feature.
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Note that the solution we have found for the Kyocera printers (bug
951627) does not solve the problem of the Brother printers. So please
keep working with Chris Liddell (cliddell, cjl) from Ghostscript to find
a solution.
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Richard,
Thanks, that was helpful, but confusing. Here's another file for you to
try. It will print a series of "here xx" statments in column, can you
tell me what the last number "xx" is?
http://www.ghostscript.com/~chrisl/nearly-empty-ps2w-02.ps
Some other questions:
I understand some of the
Chris,
Got as far as 39 on the second line of text.
Also on the far left margin there is part of a number (maybe a 6??) just before
the 26 on line 2. Not sure if that is relevant
Hope this helps
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Importance: Undecided => High
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Richard,
Thanks for trying it. It's a shame it didn't work..
This is a bit of a long shot, but I've "instrumented" a simple PS file,
if you (or someone) wouldn't mind sending it to the printer with nc
(sorry, but without access to the actual printer, it's a bit of stabbing
in the dark):
http
Just tried Ausgabe.ps to a Brother MFC 9460CDN using Document Viewer -
result, blank page.
nc -w1 172.20.2.200 9100 < Ausgabe.ps
Again - single blank page
Cheers
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After a *lot* of help from a user of the Kyocera printers which *seem*
to have the same problem, we've come up with a *possible* solution -
although, note that the Kyocera printer showed a different symptom: it
froze.
But, anyway, could someone with the Brother printers seeing this problem try
th
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 13:36, Till Kamppeter <950...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> What is the reaction: Blank page, no page, what is printed on an error
> message page if you get one?
Running through these options all provided me with empty pages (even
on 11.10) which lead me to verify that there
Just want to throw this out there. I'm using 12.04 on a separate
partition. Xubuntu 11.04 is installed on another (the printer fuctions
correctly on the older install). It would be easy for me to copy and
paste the files from the 11.04 partition if I knew which files to copy
(and if you thought tha
Hi Till, this option appears to already be active on my Brother 5280,
but no error messages are forthcoming. This evening, if nothing else, I
can still try to follow through with the rest of your instructions.
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 13:16, Till Kamppeter <950...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Can you all turn on the facility of error message page printing on your
> Brother printers, using the front panel menues or the printer's web
> interface (http:///), then send the PostScript file from
> Precise again
Can everyone please do the following tests:
In comment #25 I asked to create a PDF file via "Print to file" and to
convert it to PostScript using Ghostscript. Please add parameters to the
pdf2ps command now, one at a time. Try the following parameters:
-dLanguageLevel=3
-dLanguageLevel=2
-dLangua
Can you all turn on the facility of error message page printing on your
Brother printers, using the front panel menues or the printer's web
interface (http:///), then send the PostScript file from
Precise again and scan/photograph the error message page (should come
out in addition to the empty pag
Also have this bug with a Brother HL-5280DW printer. Ubuntu 12.04 Beta
1. 32-bit.
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Comment #26 has a pxlmono file attached. What I need is the PostScript
output of 11.10 (which works) and of 12.04 (which does not work).
What is missing is the PostScript output file of 11.10.
Please also follow the instructions of comment #25.
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See comment #26 for the file. There were posts while I was finding the
file to attach.
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Note that pxlmono should always print and that this would be the quick
workaround until we have the real fix.
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On my side one has a toner low message, the other is in ready state.
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Using the files above, I can print the 11.10 file with
> lpr -P Brother-HL-5250DN-series -oraw printout-11.10
but not
> lpr -P Brother-HL-5250DN-series -oraw printout-12.04
Again, I don't know if it's meaningful, but there is quite a delay with
the working file (like the printer is parsing data) a
Here's the one that works from the Foomatic/pxlmono driver, but it's a
binary file
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Perhaps you have the same problem as I have found out together with
another users on Kyocera printers. Current Ghostscript produces
PostScript which the printer does not print. See bug 951627, comment
#11:
Deeper investigation shows that most probably the problem is
Ghostscript. The PostScript gen
I have this problem with a Brother HL-5250DN printer also. Don't know
if it's related, but I get an info message in the printer properties
dialog that the Toner is empty. However, that shouldn't be a problem
since it was changed fairly recently.
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 15:48, Till Kamppeter <950...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Try to do the unfiltered printing (on 12.04) with the following command
>
> nc -w1 192.168.2.204 9100 < /tmp/printout
I did 3 tests:
[ressu@patience:/tmp]
% nc -w1 192.168.2.204 9100 < /tmp/printout-11.10
[ressu@pa
Yes, this is what I tried, I sent the /tmp/printout file to my printer
on port 9100 and a blank page was printed.
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TiCPU, did you also try to do the unfiltered sending of the
/tmp/printout file as described in comment #17? Replace the IP address
by your printer's IP address if this one was not yours.
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I can confirm to see the whole test page in gv from printout, with Ubuntu,
color circles and job information with border.
I then tried sending it to the printer and I get a blank page out.
For your information, even jobs with multiples pages only output a
single page.
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Try to do the unfiltered printing (on 12.04) with the following command
nc -w1 192.168.2.204 9100 < /tmp/printout
Do
sudo apt-get install netcat-openbsd
if you do not have "nc" installed.
Does it print this way?
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Can you print one and the same PDF file, via
lpr -P test file.pdf
on both systems, verify that raw printing the /tmp/printout file works
only on the old system and then attach the two /tmp/printout files? This
way I can compare the results.
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And here is a printout that doesn't work from 12.04
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Here is a printout that works, collected from Ubuntu 11.10
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Do you still have a machine with old Ubuntu version where printing still
worked for you?
If so (or booting an old live CD) please follow my instructions of
comment #6 also on the old system and verify that the /tmp/printout
there works ( comment #11).
Please attach the /tmp/printout files of both
I still get an empty page with raw output.
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Can you send the /tmp/printout file to yor printer unfiltered:
lpr -P Brother_MFC-8860DN -oraw /tmp/printout
Do you get a correct printout or a blank page?
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Just finished the tests in comment #6, the /tmp/printout file contains
coloured circles as I would expect.
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TiCPU, do you get the complete test page in comment #7 or only the
colored circles?
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I forgot to add that I also get blank pages on MFC-9840CDW.
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Same problem with MFC-8860DN
jerome@ganas0201:~$ cupsctl FileDevice=yes
jerome@ganas0201:~$ lpadmin -p test -E -v file:/tmp/printout -P
/etc/cups/ppd/Brother_MFC-8860DN.ppd
jerome@ganas0201:~$ lpr -P test /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
jerome@ganas0201:~$ lpstat -o
jerome@ganas0201:~$ gv /tmp/p
Please run the following commands:
cupsctl FileDevice=yes
lpadmin -p test -E -v file:/tmp/printout -P /etc/cups/ppd/Brother-DCP-9010CN.ppd
lpr -P test /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
Now wait until the job finishes ("lpstat -o" should not list the job any
more) and enter the commands
sudo chmod 7
I'll attach the error_log. As for the print job data, the output
contains the original data as is, but still the output is empty on
paper. The original data was in PDF format.
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Can you follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and
"Capturing print job data" on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems. Thanks.
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Both of them still output an empty page.
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Can you run the following commands in a terminal window and then try to
print:
cancel -a
lpadmin - p Brother-DCP-9010CN -v socket://192.168.2.204/
Does this work?
If not, try
cancel -a
lpadmin - p Brother-DCP-9010CN -v lpd://192.168.2.204/
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