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CUPS - job completed, but no print out on the printer?

Hi, I have a problem with my printer Brother HL-2035. When I try to print something there is only some led blinks on printer and nothing is print. I am using drivers from brother(cupswrapper). I am using CUPS 1.3.11. I didn't have any problems on my previous installation of slackware(but I don't know which driver I've used). I read about that problem on some pages but nothing helped me.

You need to install two packages: cupswrapper and the hl-2030 driver package. Go back to the Brother website to get the 2030 driver package.

I have seen similar things happen on my Brother HL-2040, cups is 1.4.1 on my system. However, I have only see it fail when trying to print all or part of a .pdf file from Okular. Test page works, and I have not seen problems when printing from other applications. The work around was to install Acroread. Then the same file will print as expected.

I downloaded and installed both cupswrapper and drivers to HL-2030. I can't print test page from cups. I don't know why but cups 1.4.3 doesn't recognize my printer so I'm using 1.3.11.

Can you 'see' the printer with the following command?

'/usr/sbin/lsusb' ? ( Run the command without the quotes. )

On my system...

Quote:

/usr/sbin/lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0028 Brother Industries, Ltd Printer

What do you see if you check to see if the drivers are installed?

This is the command from the install instructions.

Quote:

4-5. Check if the LPR driver and cupswrapper driver are installed

Command (for dpkg) : dpkg -l | grep Brother
Command (for rpm) : rpm -qa | grep -e (lpr-drivername) -e (cupswrapper-drivername)

Is this Slackware? Since the packages seem to be for deb and rpm based systems.

I converted rpm package into tgz and then installed it. And this is replacement of your command:

Code:

pielas@slackware:~$ ls /var/log/packages/|grep cupswrapper

cupswrapperHL2030-2.0.1-1.i386

pielas@slackware:~$ ls /var/log/packages/|grep lpr

brhl2030lpr-2.0.1-1.i386

Is this a 32 bit system or 64 bit? I see there are some extra things you need to do for 64 bit.

See this link in case it's 64 bit.

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...rn.html#f00081

No, this is a 32 bit system.

Well, I'm running out of ideas. The only thing I can think of, is the device URI. What have you got set for the device URI?

There are some samples on the Brother help pages. I had some problems with my old Lexmark printer getting the device URI correct.

Device URI: usb://Brother/HL-2030%20series. It looks correct. When I find some free time I will try to install any disto on my old computer and look if the printer would works.

//edit:
I don't know why but after I removed completely cups(including /etc/cups, /usr/share/cups/, /usr/lib/cups) and installed it everything works perfectly.

fixing Brother 'Job Complete' but not printing.

I was able to fix this; first this will cost you about 480MB of space; (if running off USB like I am, you may not be thrilled);

the DEB driver files on the brother page did not work for me; Jet Direct, CUPS admin, and IPP setups did not work; GnuPrint Drivers did not work for me. GUI server setting (allowing print sharing etc) did not work.
Editing the .etc --> SMB --> smb.config file, did not completely work for me.

Don't waste your time there.

***You must use the .GZ package installer provided on the Brother site.

You must open terminal and CD (Change directory) to where you have downloaded the file. Then follow the command lines listed on the brother page.
The Brother command lines do the following 2 steps:
1. Gunzip (unzip) the package ;
2. Run the installer via 'Sudo Bash';

**It helps to know the Full Printer Name, URL, or IP address of the printer before you begin but not necessary. The installer wizard will ask you questions, I chose to select the 'Auto' install options; to let the installer decide as much as possible.