On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 06:59:42 +0200 Matthias Apitz articulated: > El día Friday, September 30, 2011 a las 04:57:14PM -0400, Carmel > escribió: > > > I am in the process of setting up a Brother MFC-9560CDW printer on a > > FreeBSD-8.2 amd64 machine. It is a network printer and works fine > > with the Windows machines on the network. Not so much with the > > FreeBSD machine. > > > > CUPS detects the printer: > > > > Description: Brother MFC-9560CDW > > Location: Local Printer > > Driver: Brother MFC-9560CDW CUPS (color, 2-sided printing) > > Connection: lpd://BRW0022587025CB/BINARY_P1 > > Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in > > sides=one-sided > > > > However, the connection does not work correctly. I changed it > > to:lpd://192.168.1.100/BINARY_P1 and I can print a "self text page" > > from CUPS. However, I cannot print a "test page" from within CUPS, > > nor can I print anything from any other application. > > > > I have perused the log files without any success. This limited > > printing has got me totally baffled. I am open to suggestions as to > > what to try next. > > While configuring the printer in CUPS, have you used some PPD file? > If so, check the PPD file which filter it will use. > > Set also the LogLevel to 'debug' in cupsd.conf, print a text file and > check the messages in CUPS' log file.
This is the beginning of the *.ppd file: *%================================================ *% Copyright(C) 2010 Brother Industries, Ltd. *% "Brother MFC-9560CDW CUPS" *%================================================ *%==== General Information Keywords ======================== *FormatVersion: "4.3" *FileVersion: "1.1.3" *LanguageVersion: English *LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1 *PCFileName: "MFC9560W.PPD" *Manufacturer: "Brother" *Product: "(MFC-9560CDW)" *1284DeviceID: "MFG:Brother;MDL:MFC-9560CDW" *cupsVersion: 1.1 *cupsManualCopies: false *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brlpdwrappermfc9560cdw" *cupsModelNumber: 4 *ModelName: "Brother MFC-9560CDW" *ShortNickName: "MFC-9560CDW" *NickName: "Brother MFC-9560CDW CUPS" *PSVersion: "(3010.106) 3" There is no "brlpdwrappermfc9560cdw" file located on this unit if that is what you are looking for. This has really got me stumped. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"