I have a similar-sounding brother laserprinter. I hate to say it, but I found the available open-source driver didn't produce correct output with mine, I had to use the proprietary driver from brother: hll2395dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 4:03 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, George N. White III wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:04?AM Michael Hennebry < > > henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > > >> My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer > >> is only printing in flip mode, > >> i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, > >> to read the back page, one must flip it vertically > >> by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge. > >> > > > > I think there have been changes to the PPD options for this. How are you > > connecting the > > printer -- wifi or USB? > > USB > When I first tried to install the printer, > there was no option for this model. > > >> The defaults for the printer is set to > >> job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=two-sided-long-edge > >> I've restarted CUPS on F38. > >> The problem occurs with both gedit and vim. > >> In the case of gedit, page setup tells me I've set it up correctly, > >> but it still does the wrong thing. > > > Is this a new install or was the printer working under Fedora in the > past? > > In worked under F35. > > > That printer claims to support AirPrint, so should work with IPP > > Everywhere, but there are > > also legacy CUPS PPD files > > I have a separately downloaded brother-HLL2360D-cups-en.ppd from 2020. > Apparently it did not work. > > With F35, I had to download and build some code, brlaser, to make it work. > With F38, I am using package printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64 from updates. > Said package apparently defined "Model" > Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser v6 (en) . > The "Model" listed as current lacks the (en) . > > > See: <https://www.pwg.org/index.html> > > > > > See: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems> > > Not seeing a lot info information on either site. > The latter seems to link to the source that was rpm'ed to make > printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64 . > Despite the name, I do not see memtion of specific problems. > > I really hate the poke it and see what happens method of repair, > but I might be reduced to it. > > -- > Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu > "His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got > smaller, more scribbly, and harder to read; although, like being hanged, > one can get used to it." -- Gordon Dickson on H.P. Lovecraft's handwriting > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*
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