On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > When I try to print double sided to this printer I get a single page > reading: > > ERROR NAME; > stackunderflow > COMMAND; > pop > OPERAND STACK; > > I almost always see this when printing anything double sided from > Firefox or from Acroread, but not when printing from Okular or > LibreOffice. There are other weird problems, but too erratic to > report. > > System is Fedora-17 fully up to date, running on x86_64 hardware. The > ppd file appears to come from: > foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-31.20120103.fc17.noarch On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:22 -0500, fred smith wrote: > Um,... try choosing a different driver, one of the ones that Cups > provides, or one of the foomatic drivers, and see how they work. > Or try a generic PCL or PostScript driver and see what happens. > > If the printer is receiving the PS and is choking on it, it may be > that you could avoid that by using one of its other "personalities", > e.g. PCL3/PCL5/whatever instead (as mentioned above). On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > A good idea. I've tried the 5 printers suggested by > system-config-printer for this model printer with the following results. > (Testing all the 3767 drivers in the Foomatic database seems a little > excessive.) > > Brother-HL-5250DN BR-Script3 > Double sided printing FAILS > Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript > Double sided printing FAILS > Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/lj5gray > Driver FAILS completely (see below for error message) > Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/pxlmono > Double sided printing WORKS > Page download so slow as to be unusable > Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript > Double sided printing FAILS > > Attempting to print the test page for the Foomatic/lj5gray driver > produces this output on the printer: > > PCL XL error > Subsystem: Kernel > Error: ExtraData > Operator: 0xc1 > Position: 7 > > Thanks to all - jon On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 10:50 -0500, fred smith wrote: > SIGH! > > Have you tried talking to Brother about the original issue when using > their driver? No. But I'm not optimistic, since I'm using the Foomatic driver archive. > Oh, have you also checked to see if they have a firmware update for > that printer? Thanks for the suggestion. They did; I installed it; no improvement. > and as much as I hate to even think this word, have you tried to see if > the printer (and the appropriate Brother driver) works properly on Windoze? The printer with its driver works OK on Windoze XP. jon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
