On Thursday 14 June 2018 16:36:55 E. Liddell wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:03:02 -0400

Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:

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Greetings all;

I am in the process od transitioning to stretch, and there are some helpfull email messages I need to print. . But I need to print them on a brother HL-2140, about a penny a sheet. not of the big ink squirter at 25 to 50 cents a sheet not to mention its in pages per hour speed.

But when I send something to the little brother, knotify pops up with the following message: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error while reading filter description for (bold>) true. Empty command line received.

This printer is shared and works fine from any other machine on my 6 machine home network, it only miss-behaves from kmail. Up to date TDE r14.0.0.5 install.

Does it work from other programs on that machine?

Yes as expected.

Other TDE programs?

Anything, but usually from an editor like geany, on any machine of my home network, and it just works.

From the command line using lp?

I have done that many hundreds of times, both by hand, and from a script driven by drivewire, which is a com utility with a legacy computer.

In kmail on the other machines?

This is ATM, the only kmail install in the local net, the other machines are nearly all running some sort of a cnc controlled machine, with me writing the gcode with geany, and I generally save the code as a paper copy. And except for kmail, printing an email, it Just Works.

Are you using the Brother proprietary drivers? They're flaky, and some of them were created for ancient versions of CUPS. Try setting it up as a generic Postscript printer if you can.

No, tried hpjs and foomatic, foomatic is the cups recommended facility, but hpjs fails similarly.

(Maybe someone else will have some more specific ideas--I've had some interesting errors from my Brother multifunction, but not that one.)

E. Liddell

I've wiresharked the data to an mfc-j6920.dw and had to grin a bit, when sane tries to access its scanner, or the printer is being accessed, the tcp command has a bad checksum the first 6 times the request is sent at 1 second intervals, but then fixes it and the printer wakes up and does its thing, using the brother drivers in that instance. So I can appreciate your assessment of their driver "quality". Its not the greatest. But it sure beats the hell out of an epson that clogs its heads forever in a few weeks. And the expendables are considerably longer lasting at about the same cost. This one also does tabloid sized paper which is neat when its drawing me a logic diagram captured from one of my machines and to get readable text (rockhoppers output is in vsg) it still takes 6 to 8 pages of tabloid paper fed thru ps2poster from inkscape.

Thanks E. Liddell.