Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:22 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> 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

> 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.

Till recently I used a Brother HL-1440 without problems.  This printer
(I think) understands the HP PCL4 control language.  The HL-5240DN
understands a variety of control languages: 
	PCL6, BR-Script 3 (PostScript® 3™), Epson FX-850, IBM ProPrinter XL
to be exact.  The driver I'm using appears to send postscript to the
printer.  It is identified in the printer control website
(http://localhost:631/admin) as:
	Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3 (grayscale, 2-sided printing)

I don't think it's GhostScript (tm) that's choking but rather the
printer itself, though I may be wrong here.  Any ideas on how to
investigate?