Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

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

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

On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 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

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 10:50 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> SIGH!
>
> Have you tried talking to Brother about the original issue when using
> their driver?

No.  But I'm not optimistic, since I'm using the Foomatic driver
archive.

> Oh, have you also checked to see if they have a firmware update for
> that printer?

Thanks for the suggestion.  They did; I installed it; no improvement.

> and as much as I hate to even think this word, have you tried to see if
> the printer (and the appropriate Brother driver) works properly on Windoze?

The printer with its driver works OK on Windoze XP.

jon