* John Magolske <listm...@b79.net> [120413 15:06]: > [...] I think I figured out the printing issue. This is a legal size > PDF, and so I added the -o media=legal to the command like so: > > lp -d Brother_HL-1450_series -n 1 -P 2 -o media=legal some-file.pdf > > And now it seems to be printing fine. Will check again later this > weekend when I have more paper & time, but it seems to be printing ok > for now.
Spoke too soon, that actually did *not* solve the problem. What did fix things was to install foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine, then pick the "Brother HL-1450 Foomatic/ljet4" from the CUPS web admin interface. I arrived at this by a process of trial and error, trying each of the six options prefaced by "Brother HL-1450". The only one that works is "Brother HL-1450 Foomatic/ljet4". All others either intermittently print pages with JL SET MEDIATYPE=REGULAR @PJL SET SOURCETRAY=AUTO @PJL SET RESOLUTION=600 @PJL SET at the top, or print blank pages, or pages with a bunch of garbage on them. The "official" PPD file for the HL-1450 printer on Brother's website is a "BRHL14_1_GPL.ppd", but that didn't print anything at all. Tried the gutenprint drivers, which caused things to be printed out at a huge scale, jagged/rasterized. But ljet4 is now working fine -- just printed 80+ pages reliably. One thing I did notice is that under "Set Default Options" in the CUPS admin interface ljet4 offers 600x600 DPI as the maximum resolution, whereas the Brother-HL-1450-hl1250.ppd I'd used in the past offered a 1200x600 resolution choice (the max resolution of this printer according to its specs). However, a close observation of text on the printed page using a 15X loupe shows no discernible degradation in quality relative to previous pages that were printed with the hl1250 set at 1200x600. If anything the quality looks a bit better. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120416181048.ga14...@s70206.gridserver.com