On Sunday 06 August 2017 13:43:20 deloptes wrote: > Andrew W wrote: > > Can anyone help me determine the location of an annoying bug which > > seems to persist in the driver(s) for the Brother HL404CN laser > > printer please? It has existed since Wheezy and is still present in > > Stretch. > > > > Printing from most apps (but interestingly not GIMP) will often fail > > with the printers firmware locking up and showing Error E1 on its > > display - the only way out of this is to turn the printer off and > > back on. > > > > I've tried several of the drivers listed and all seem to have the > > same issue. Further more in Stretch the web interface for CUPS > > doesnt seem to work on localhost:631 and the Gnome system settings > > GUI for print queue management doesnt do anything. Its as if the > > buttons have no event handlers behind them to actually do anything!
That rather sounds as if the cups daemon isn't running. Look for /var/log/cupsd error files, which might illuminate the real error, since no printer is going to work on a modern linux install without its running and waiting for a print request. > > > > Thanks > > Have you done firmware upgrade? > https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/80507/~/print-una >ble-e1-or-machine-error-e1-message > > also here it suggests that it might be the poppler lib causing issues > > https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89122 > > the printer uses PCL6 so make sure you get the proper conversion from > any type to PCL in cups. Look there for solution. > > regards Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>