Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

Jonathan Ryshpan jonrysh at pacbell.net
Wed Nov 28 17:48:46 UTC 2012


On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:48:49 -0800 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.

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:04 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> You might want to try looking at www.linuxprinting.org, which has, among
> other things, driver recommendations for specific printers and lists of
> features that are known to work/not work in Linux. For this printer, it
> ends up pointing to:
> 
> http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-5250DN
> 
> They are recommending a Brother-specific driver that you need to
> download and install.

Thanks for the pointer.  I have installed the rpm and set up a printer
using the recommended ppd.  The same problem persists.

jon



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