14 Jun
2018
14 Jun
'18
5:03 p.m.
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.
Any clues?
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
14 Jun
14 Jun
8:36 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] cups or tde belly ache, kmail can't print to cheap brother lazer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:03:02 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
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? Other TDE programs?
From the command line using lp? In kmail on the other machines?
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.
(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
9:42 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] cups or tde belly ache, kmail can't print to cheap brother lazer
On Thursday 14 June 2018 16:36:55 E. Liddell wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:03:02 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
Yes as expected.
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? 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.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
15 Jun
15 Jun
2:27 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] cups or tde belly ache, kmail can't print to cheap brother lazer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:42:24 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
I had much worse problems than that (landscape mode not working, frex,
because the ppd was written for something like CUPS 1.3 and would
not play nice with 2.X at all). Annoying as heck, and it isn't as though the
MFC-9130CW is an ancient piece of hardware.
E. Liddell
On Thursday 14 June 2018 16:36:55 E. Liddell wrote:
[...]
The only other thing I can think of that might be useful is to check the CUPS
log ( /var/log/cups/error_log on my system, might need to change the message
level to get anything useful out of it). Sometimes that reveals a bit more about
which filter's failing, anyway.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:03:02 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
Yes as expected. 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? (Maybe someone
else will have some more specific ideas--I've had some
interesting errors from my Brother multifunction, but not that one.)
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. 
16 Jun
16 Jun
2:18 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] cups or tde belly ache, kmail can't print to cheap brother lazer
On Thu June 14 2018 10:03:02 Gene Heskett wrote:
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.
Have you tried running cupstestppd on your various ppds in /etc/cups/ppd ?
--Mike
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