Brother printer prints wrong characters
 

Hello,
I'm trying to print an odt document from openSuse 12.1 x86_64 .
I did a fresh install (including 32 bit libraries) of the OS, and installed the printer as I did in 11.4 x86_64 .

The problem is: the printer prints, but the characters are funny and the print is misplaced on the page.

My other printer (HP 4500 installed via hp-lip) works well .
The driver is the 32bit driver found on the Brother website.
foomatic is installed

What should I do ???

Could you describe the problem a little more clearly? Maybe include a line from what is printed.

Thanks,

X

Well, in Okular the margins are the maximum margins of the printer ( 3 mm ) and even if I set the top margin to 20 mm - and the others to the respective ones - I lose the top of the fist line.

I tried the "Print to PDF" command in LibreOffice and the output is Correct.
Using Times New Roman as the character type I get the following error:
For example a "d" is printed as if it has another smaller "d" inside

EDIT --
I installed kde4-printer-applet.
From there I selected: "scale to fill page".
Now the margins are correct, and the first print was without problems.
I rebooted, the margins are still correct, but this is an example of the error:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9K...U9jQ3M4VU5SMm8

Should be "Chiusura" "Barclaycard" and "774,21"
Don't know why every time I print I get different characters mismatched

I don't see the model number of the printer anywhere, but what I did was put the model number of my printer into a search engine and started reading what people were saying about it. It took hours of reading but I finally found someone having the same problem AND they posted a solution. My Brother HL-2270 is working fine now, but it sure was a headache getting the thing to work under Linux.

Could you try the printer on a different distro? Can you acquire fresh drivers and install them? Just some ideas.

Post the model number and hopefully some folks will help you find a solution.

X

My printer is s Brother DCP-135C
The printer has been working correctly in: Ubuntu 7.10 to 11.04 (when I stopped using Ubuntu and switched to openSuse)
Opensuse 11.4 64-bit

I searched the Internet a lot before posting here, but I found noone else with me same problem.

I found some people complaining about ghostscript and Cups in the Mac OS, but when I try to print to PDF, everything works fine.

Maybe there is a problem with my configuration ... (Since the distro is updated ...)

I wonder if it could be a corrupted font. May be a long shot but worth a try just to eliminate a possible cause.

Mmmmm ...
I forgot to mention an important thing: right after I installed the printer for the nth time, it worked.
Then, after a reboot, it stopped working ...

Also; under Windows, if I tell Adobe Reader to print the Odd pages in the inverted order, I get a paper misfeed on the last 2 pages ...
If it wasn't for the fact that I found compatible cartridges for less than 2 € , I would change it ...

Thanks for you help ;) !!!

If somebody else has my problem we could maybe find a solution together ...