On Thursday 14 June 2018 16:36:55 E. Liddell wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:03:02 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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? 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. -- 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> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
