On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:02:12 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
