Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 21:31 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:51:18AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > 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
> ...
> Um,... try choosing a different driver, one of the ones that Cups
> provides, or one of the foomatic drivers, and see how they work.
> Or try a generic PCL or PostScript driver and see what happens.
> 
> If the printer is receiving the PS and is choking on it, it may be
> that you could avoid that by using one of its other "personalities",
> e.g. PCL3/PCL5/whatever instead (as mentioned above).

A good idea.  I've tried the 5 printers suggested by
system-config-printer for this model printer with the following results.
(Testing all the 3767 drivers in the Foomatic database seems a little
excessive.)

Brother-HL-5250DN BR-Script3
	Double sided printing FAILS
Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript
	Double sided printing FAILS
Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/lj5gray
	Driver FAILS completely (see below for error message)
Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/pxlmono
	Double sided printing WORKS
	Page download so slow as to be unusable
Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript
	Double sided printing FAILS

Attempting to print the test page for the Foomatic/lj5gray driver
produces this output on the printer:

PCL XL error
	Subsystem:	Kernel
	Error:		ExtraData
	Operator:	0xc1
	Position:	7

Thanks to all - jon