I even tried to create a new ppd, using the print tool call by kpdf, but at click on print, error instead.
This may indicate there is a filter problem, as ALL the color/density info is stripped from the streams delivered to the printer, resulting in extremely pale color output, as if every option in the ppd was permanently set to -20.
This has been a problem since I bought this printer, a huge thing with an adf scanner, capable of 11x17 tabloid output. Using the brother supplied drivers, all they have ever said was to install their drivers, which I have several times to zero effect.
If you folks can find and solve this problem, I'd be most appreciative. I've removed the true filter, leaving enscript, but that also pops up this error:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection on a non-PostScript file). Do you want TDE to convert the file to a supported format?
None of the other filter selections materially change this error message.
The file in question is rendered on screen perfectly in evince, okular gv and kpdf. xpdf also works mostly. kpdf's properties claims its PDF-1.4.
Will the conversion wreck it?, I can download another copy from the card vendors web site. My guess is yes since it does not show a pdf output format in the selection list.
Help appreciated.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Gene Heskett wrote:
If you folks can find and solve this problem, I'd be most appreciative. I've removed the true filter, leaving enscript, but that also pops up this error:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection on a non-PostScript file). Do you want TDE to convert the file to a supported format?
None of the other filter selections materially change this error message.
I guess you have to look at the cups configuration. If the printer is properly configured/supported in cups, it should work from kpdf without issue.
And why it is saying non-CUPS spoolers?
If you don't mind share the model. I am not very knowledgable, but someone else can help and probably the debian user will be more fruitful.
I stick to B/W HP laser and first I used 5L for 18y which I replaced last year with another HP.
Most important to configure the cups server - use the cups UI. Find the model or compatible one (ppd or whatever it is called in Brother).
Check the packages required and installed - might be you need the proper filter package.
regards
On Tuesday 12 March 2019 18:15:17 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
If you folks can find and solve this problem, I'd be most appreciative. I've removed the true filter, leaving enscript, but that also pops up this error:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection on a non-PostScript file). Do you want TDE to convert the file to a supported format?
None of the other filter selections materially change this error message.
I guess you have to look at the cups configuration. If the printer is properly configured/supported in cups, it should work from kpdf without issue.
And why it is saying non-CUPS spoolers?
If you don't mind share the model. I am not very knowledgable, but someone else can help and probably the debian user will be more fruitful.
Its an MFC-J6920DW
I stick to B/W HP laser and first I used 5L for 18y which I replaced last year with another HP.
Most important to configure the cups server - use the cups UI. Find the model or compatible one (ppd or whatever it is called in Brother).
Probably been to that rodeo a couple hundred times. It is not properly configured in cups, doing extremely pastel output. Ink mileage is of course fantastic since it doesn't use near enough.
Check the packages required and installed - might be you need the proper filter package.
I think that highly likely, but no one at cups can tell me what filter might be missing, and I have installed everything cups related according to synaptic.
regards
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
Anno domini 2019 Tue, 12 Mar 23:01:46 -0400 Gene Heskett scripsit:
On Tuesday 12 March 2019 18:15:17 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
If you folks can find and solve this problem, I'd be most appreciative. I've removed the true filter, leaving enscript, but that also pops up this error:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection on a non-PostScript file). Do you want TDE to convert the file to a supported format?
None of the other filter selections materially change this error message.
I guess you have to look at the cups configuration. If the printer is properly configured/supported in cups, it should work from kpdf without issue.
And why it is saying non-CUPS spoolers?
If you don't mind share the model. I am not very knowledgable, but someone else can help and probably the debian user will be more fruitful.
Its an MFC-J6920DW
I stick to B/W HP laser and first I used 5L for 18y which I replaced last year with another HP.
Most important to configure the cups server - use the cups UI. Find the model or compatible one (ppd or whatever it is called in Brother).
Probably been to that rodeo a couple hundred times. It is not properly configured in cups, doing extremely pastel output. Ink mileage is of course fantastic since it doesn't use near enough.
Check the packages required and installed - might be you need the proper filter package.
I think that highly likely, but no one at cups can tell me what filter might be missing, and I have installed everything cups related according to synaptic.
Hi Gene!
I have a MFC-J5320DW. I cannot configure the print quality from TDE, but I can from the cups web frontend http://localhost:631
There are settings for "paper quality" that affect the print quality, you might want to test all posible values. Also there is a setting for "draft" and "ink saving" somewhere.
Nik
On Wednesday 13 March 2019 03:36:10 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2019 Tue, 12 Mar 23:01:46 -0400
Gene Heskett scripsit:
On Tuesday 12 March 2019 18:15:17 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
If you folks can find and solve this problem, I'd be most appreciative. I've removed the true filter, leaving enscript, but that also pops up this error:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection on a non-PostScript file). Do you want TDE to convert the file to a supported format?
None of the other filter selections materially change this error message.
I guess you have to look at the cups configuration. If the printer is properly configured/supported in cups, it should work from kpdf without issue.
And why it is saying non-CUPS spoolers?
If you don't mind share the model. I am not very knowledgable, but someone else can help and probably the debian user will be more fruitful.
Its an MFC-J6920DW
I stick to B/W HP laser and first I used 5L for 18y which I replaced last year with another HP.
Most important to configure the cups server - use the cups UI. Find the model or compatible one (ppd or whatever it is called in Brother).
Probably been to that rodeo a couple hundred times. It is not properly configured in cups, doing extremely pastel output. Ink mileage is of course fantastic since it doesn't use near enough.
Check the packages required and installed - might be you need the proper filter package.
I think that highly likely, but no one at cups can tell me what filter might be missing, and I have installed everything cups related according to synaptic.
Hi Gene!
I have a MFC-J5320DW. I cannot configure the print quality from TDE, but I can from the cups web frontend http://localhost:631
There are settings for "paper quality" that affect the print quality, you might want to test all posible values. Also there is a setting for "draft" and "ink saving" somewhere.
Nik
BTDT Nik, even hand edited the ppd. Something in the filters category is just plain striping 90% of the option stuff in the ppd. TDEPrint seems to be aware of it, and refuses to even try, so does gv. evince and okular play dumb and shove it down the pipe anyway, ignoreing the spillage. What I really expect is for it to start working by the time I download an official buster image.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
AFAIK the maintainer of CUPS is still proposing to remove filter, PPD, printer driver, and raw queue support in 2020. Per him, "They" will pick up support for these removed architectures.
https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271
Full Disclosure: I left the discussion as a waste of my time in mid 2018.
Best All, Michael
Gene Heskett wrote:
BTDT Nik, even hand edited the ppd. Something in the filters category is just plain striping 90% of the option stuff in the ppd. TDEPrint seems to be aware of it, and refuses to even try, so does gv. evince and okular play dumb and shove it down the pipe anyway, ignoreing the spillage. What I really expect is for it to start working by the time I download an official buster image.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Go one step back and read the specs of the printer - I see many Brother MFC supported in cups (stretch). For example if your printer supports Postscript, you can use any postscript driver or name it profile. Manufacturers do not reinvent the wheel for each model, but rather provide different features. So based on what your printer supports, I bet it will be possible to use different model to get the functionality.
regards
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:23:40 -0400 Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
This has been a problem since I bought this printer, a huge thing with an adf scanner, capable of 11x17 tabloid output. Using the brother supplied drivers, all they have ever said was to install their drivers, which I have several times to zero effect.
Brother's CUPS drivers are next to useless, because they never update them. Trying creating a profile for it using the CUPS "Generic Postscript Printer" driver and see if that works any better (it did for me on a Brother MFC-9130CW). If I recall correctly, you can have multiple CUPS profiles for the same physical printer, and they'll be treated as different logical printers.
E. Liddell
E. Liddell composed on 2019-03-12 18:54 (UTC-0400):
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
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:02:12 -0400 Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net wrote:
E. Liddell composed on 2019-03-12 18:54 (UTC-0400):
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
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.)
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, E. Liddell wrote:
E. Liddell (who just switched email providers because I was tired of GMail's over-aggressive spam protection. Hopefully this will work better.)
your stuff (still) goes straight to spam.
however I am reading via gmail.
f.
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 01:43:42 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis davisf@union.edu wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, E. Liddell wrote:
E. Liddell (who just switched email providers because I was tired of GMail's over-aggressive spam protection. Hopefully this will work better.)
your stuff (still) goes straight to spam.
however I am reading via gmail.
I'm mostly hoping that Fastmail won't discard *incoming* messages incorrectly, which GMail has been doing to me for some time now. (One of those discarded messages almost cost me >CAD$200, which pushed this out of the "annoying" category and into "need to try to fix this ASAP".)
I could try using my backup-address-of-last-resort for listmail, I suppose, but I have no way of telling whether it would be any better. Unfortunately, fixing the listserv's DKIM handling isn't happening any time soon.
E. Liddell
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