On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:04:26PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 19:54 -0400, Alex wrote:
I've now tried pretty much all of them in various ways, and they all print the same error message.
OK. Not that it ought to make any difference really, but have you tried any different backend for that printer? Which backend are you currently using, and are there any others you can try?
The 'BR-Script3' driver really ought to work -- that is the manufacturer's own PPD for their printer!
One (possibly) related data point: I had NO trouble making my brother HL2070N at home work with F10, F11, or F12. However on F13 I had to mess with it quite a lot. (NOTE that my Brother printer is NOT one of those automatically set up by the new features in system-config-printer, so it still required some manual setup.)
I've always configured it as an IPP printer: ipp://printer-ip-address/ipp and it has worked out of the box with the "recommended" driver that system-config-printer suggests.
however on F13 I couldn't make it work that way. the job would be put in the queue and there it would sit. I'd find the printer disabled, re-enable it and it would be disabled again. try the print troubleshooter and after entering the root password twice and clicking a few times it would tell me that the problem is because the printer was disabled. re-enable it and it just gets disabled AGAIN.
I tried using the same configuration with every driver listed by the printer setup app and none of them worked.
however when I blew away the configuration (delete the printer) and started from scratch and chose the foomatic/hl1250 driver (still using IPP as described above) then it would work.
I wasted a lot of time on it, but even after trying to write down every step so I could Bugzilla it, I didn't feel I had enough evidence to point to any culprit so I didn't.
But the bottom line is: on F13 it appears to be sensitive to the sequence in which you try different print drivers, or perhaps some other bizarre co-dependency between settings that makes it fail or not depending on how you were holding your tongue when you clicked OK. :)
To the OP: you may want to delete the printer configuration and start afresh with the Brother PPD file and see if that gets you anywhere.