Bug 116009

Summary:	problem with pdftops and brother printer
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Oehry <oda>
Component:	[OLD] Printing	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	testpage generated with pdftops PPD file used with cups

Description Daniel Oehry 2005-12-18 23:58:21 UTC

PS files generated with pdftops from xpdf are shifted more or
20 mm to the top of the paper and 3 mm to the left when printed on a brother HL-5050 (BR-SCRIPT3).

PS files generated with pdf2ps are ok.

Comment 1 Daniel Oehry 2005-12-18 23:59:34 UTC

Created attachment 75060 [details]
testpage generated with pdftops

Comment 2 Daniel Oehry 2005-12-19 00:01:10 UTC

Created attachment 75061 [details]
PPD file used with cups

Comment 3 Daniel Oehry 2005-12-19 00:03:57 UTC

I forgot to give more information. I am using

net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4
app-text/xpdf-3.01-r3

Furthermore i attached the failing testpage.ps and the ppd file, I am using with cups.

Comment 4 Daniel Oehry 2005-12-20 02:49:11 UTC

This seems to be a printer-specific problem. The same ps-file printed on a other ps-printer does not show the described behaviour.

I wrote a e-mail to the brother support crew. Maybe there is a solution...

Comment 5 Daniel Oehry 2005-12-21 02:58:29 UTC

The brother support told me that there is a problem in the BR-SCRIPT3 interpreter of the HL-5050. The page size is not read correctly out of some ps-files. The solution is to install the Brother lpr, and cups-wrapper driver.

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/cups_drivers.html

I installed the rpm-packages. Now printing works!