CUPS test page and plain text prints, all else garbage

Mig21 · 06-17-2011, 10:45 PM

Hey

I got a new printer today, a Brother MFC 7860DW, and want to use it as a network printer.

I installed it (on Slackware) from the cupswrapperMFC7860DW-2.0.4-2.i386.deb and mfc7860dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb from the Brother website. To install I extracted the files, copied them manually, ran /usr/local/Brother/Printer/MFC7860DW/cupswrapper/cupswrapperMFC7860DW-2.0.4 , and added the printer in localhost:631

The cups test page prints perfectly, and also if I print a plain text file it works, but if I print a PDF or a webpage with Firefox or something with LibreOffice - I get pages of garbage.

Does anyone have any ideas please? This is Slackware 13.37 with cups 1.4.6, some more files:

Code:

$ cat /etc/printcap 
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
# will be lost.
7860DW|Brother MFC-7860DW:rm=legrand-sw:rp=7860DW:
Test7860DW|:rm=legrand-sw:rp=Test7860DW:

$ cat /etc/cups/printers.conf
cat: /etc/cups/printers.conf: Permission non accordée
andrei@legrand-sw:~$ sudo cat /etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.6
# Written by cupsd on 2011-06-17 23:21
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<Printer 7860DW>
Info Brother MFC-7860DW
Location Office
MakeModel Brother MFC7860DW for CUPS
DeviceURI lpd://brother/BINARY_P1
State Idle
StateTime 1308366655
Type 8392724
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brlpdwrapperMFC7860DW
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
Attribute marker-colors \#000000,#000000
Attribute marker-levels -1,99
Attribute marker-names Black Toner Cartridge,Drum Unit
Attribute marker-types toner,opc
Attribute marker-change-time 1308366655
</Printer>

Could it be that brlpdwrapperMFC7860DW is not working correctly? But how come the cups page prints? I wonder what format that cups test page is in, probably not raw?

This is a little sad, I spent some hours shopping for a printer that would work in Linux

Thanks in advance

Mig21 · 06-17-2011, 10:55 PM

Actually I am no longer able to print plain text either. CUPS test page still prints OK though.

What a bother..

Mig21 · 06-24-2011, 01:37 AM

Yeah looks like a strange problem. I have found a temporary solution, you can read about it here: http://littlesvr.ca/linux-stuff/arti...-slackware.php

Basically there is an unknown problem using the Brother drivers on Slackware and you have to use the generic ppd.