13 Mar
2019
13 Mar
'19
2:43 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:02:12 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
E. Liddell composed on 2019-03-12 18:54 (UTC-0400):
The problems I had with the Brother driver for my own printer (before I switched to the
PostScript
driver) strongly suggested it had been created for an obsolete version of CUPS (1.7.X?)
and
then left to bit-rot. I could be wrong about the cause of the problems, and it's
possible that the
driver for your (completely different) printer hasn't yet had time to decay. The
driver I had was
likewise downloaded from Brother's website and came in the form of .rpm files.
Note that the printer *sort of* worked with the Brother driver, depending on what I tried
to
print and how, and I can't remember all the problems because it was more than a year
ago.
I do know that it couldn't print in landscape mode, because that was what pointed me
in the
direction of the CUPS version difference, and I *think* I remember it barfing with a
filter problem
in a different PDF viewer (possibly Adobe Acrobat, which I don't have on this computer
but
did on the old one).
E. Liddell (who just switched email providers because I was tired of GMail's
over-aggressive
spam protection. Hopefully this will work better.)
Brother's CUPS drivers are next to useless,
How do we know that? I've had my Brother HL5470DW (IP connected) more than 2 years.
If it's not
working right, how do I tell? The test pages YaST2 prints look normal. Other than online
purchase
invoices I print rarely. WRT printing, I don't remember installing anything other
than two rpms
downloaded from Brother's web site:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 18743 Jun 5 2012 hl5470dwcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 37106 Jun 5 2012 hl5470dwlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
printer setup:
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/broHL5470DW-qOpts423.jpg 