On 09/20/2019 08:27 PM, H wrote: > On 09/20/2019 09:02 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 20:23, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote: >>> I have the above printer but have not been able to resolve issues with the >>> printing quality in CentOS 7. The test page prints fine but when I print >>> PDF-documents, most recently using Chinese fonts, it is lacking and the >>> pages very hard to read. The settings in the Mate Cups configuration panel >>> are fine and set to 600 dpi, the settings in the printer menu are all OK >>> yet it prints more like maybe 150 or even 75 dpi. >>> >> Warning: this advise is old and possibly out of date for how printer >> administration should be done these days. >> >> Usually when I run into this sort of issue it usually has to be fixed >> with an updated ppd driver from the vendor for that printer... usually >> the one they give to Apple and possibly one that was aimed for the >> country/area the language is not working on. I would then have to >> double set the printer with one for Western fonts and one for >> non-Western using 2 different ppds because things looked wrong one way >> or another. In looking at the ppd's it looked like they had the >> equivalent to microcode they sent the printer to update to do things >> 'better'. I can say the quality of printing was vastly different. >> >> The other item was just that some fonts look great on screen and dont' >> print well.. but I am guessing htis is one printer which is acting >> badly and others are doing well? >> >> >>> Any suggestion what might be wrong? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS@centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > See my reply to Fred. Just checked the printer drivers for Linux on the > Brother website > (https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2360dw_us&os=127) > and it looks the drivers for Linux are from 2014 and 2015... > > The printer driver for Mac OS 10.14 is more recent from 2018 > (https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2360dw_us&os=10052) > and that page also lists a firmware update tool with firmware from July of > this year. The update history for the firmware refers only to "improvements" > and "software bugs", not very helpful. > > Clearly I need to see if I can update the firmware. The most current firmware > on the page above is 1.29 whereas my printer has 1.25. Annoyingly the > firmware update instructions on this page refers to how to do the update on a > Mac... > Closing out my problem above. I installed the driver on a new computer running CentOS 7 and had no problems printing. There must have been a misconfiguration of the driver on the old computer, or, less likely, the Brother driver had been updated on the Brother website.
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