Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

[fred smith]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:57:20PM -0500, Digimer wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > When I try to print double sided to this printer I get a single page
> > reading:
> > 
> >         ERROR NAME;
> >             stackunderflow
> >         COMMAND;
> >             pop
> >         OPERAND STACK;
> > 
> > I almost always see this when printing anything double sided from
> > Firefox or from Acroread, but not when printing from Okular or
> > LibreOffice.  There are other weird problems, but too erratic to 
> > report.
> > 
> > System is Fedora-17 fully up to date, running on x86_64 hardware.  The
> > ppd file appears to come from:
> > 	foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-31.20120103.fc17.noarch
> >         
> > Has anyone else seen this?  What's the problem?  How can it be fixed?
> > Any ideas on how to debug?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance - jon
> 
> I get this with my brother laser printers, including an all-in-one
> without duplex. Never found a solution though, except to print to PDF,
> then to print from the PDF at which point it works.
> 
> I'd love to hear of a fix.

I have a Brother HL2070N, which is single-sided. Never see that problem.
Sounds like a PostScript error to me, so I wonder if the app is generating
invalid PostScript that is causing GhostScript to choke. Not sure how it
would be related to the specific printer, were that the case.

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