Bug 928324

Summary: PDF printed from Okular to Brother HL-5250_DN_series fails, breaks off
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Tonhofer <bughunt>
Component: foomaticAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: jpopelka, twaugh
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Bad document
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Last page seen in the failed printout
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Page as expected (printed from Windows), more pages after that
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Printer config windows
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A mangled window appears
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A lonely text enters a two-level scrollbar... none

Description David Tonhofer 2013-03-27 12:20:13 UTC
Created attachment 717047 [details]
Bad document

Description of problem:
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Attached document to be printed from okular to a "Brother HL-5250_DN_series"

Images on page 8 not generated correctly. Any subsequent pages are not printed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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okular-4.10.1-1.fc17.i686
foomatic-4.0.8-8.fc17.i686

Also tried
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Tried to printed from Adobe Reader 9.5.4 installed on the same machine. It says that it uses this command (a nice feature):

"lpr -P HL-5250DN_series -o OptionTrays=3Trays -o PageSize=Letter -o PageRegion=Letter -o CAPT=Middle -o BRMediaType=Plain -o InputSlot=AutoSelect -o ManualFeed=False -o Duplex=None -o TonerSaveMode=Off -o Sleep=PrinterDefault -o ScreenLock=True -o BRLanguageLevel=L3"

That fails abysmally, the printer coughs out an "ioerror". 

How reproducible:
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Always

Comment 1 David Tonhofer 2013-03-27 12:28:40 UTC
Created attachment 717048 [details]
Last page seen in the failed printout

Comment 2 David Tonhofer 2013-03-27 12:35:09 UTC
Created attachment 717049 [details]
Page as expected (printed from Windows), more pages after that

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2013-04-12 15:52:45 UTC
What output do you get from this command?:

grep -H '^*NickName:' /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd

Comment 4 David Tonhofer 2013-04-13 19:10:17 UTC
$ grep -H '^*NickName:' /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd

/etc/cups/ppd/HL-5250DN_series.ppd:*NickName: "Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3"
/etc/cups/ppd/MFCJ6510DW.ppd:*NickName: "Brother MFC-J6510DW CUPS"

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2013-04-15 12:15:05 UTC
Please install the "foomatic" package, if it is not already installed. This should give you another driver to try:

Brother HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript

Try changing the driver by running system-config-printer, double-clicking on the queue, then clicking 'Change...' next to Make and Model.

Comment 6 David Tonhofer 2013-04-16 16:33:00 UTC
Results are the same: Printing breaks off at the same place, page incomplete in the same way.

What I did:
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foomatic was already installed, but not "system-config-printer" (as I am using KDE, I suppose). Installed.

Run "system-config-printer" from the commandline as root.

  The printer window pops up

Select Menu Point "Printer > Properties"

  The properties window pops up

Select "Make and Model : Change"

  The change driver window pops up

Choose "Select printer from database >> Brother (recommended)" 

Then "Forward"

  The Drivers for HL-5250DN are displayed:

  HL-5250DN BR-Script [en] (recommended)
  HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript
  HL-5250DN Foomatic/pxlmono
  HL-5250DN Foomatic/lj5gray

A somewhat mangled window is displayed

  "Try to transfer the current settings"

  "Use the new PPD"
  "Try to copy the option seetings over from the old PPD (YES)"

The Change Driver window pops up, (with two imbricated scrollbars:-( 

"APPLY", then "OK" in the Drivers windows

Comment 7 David Tonhofer 2013-04-16 16:33:53 UTC
Created attachment 736438 [details]
Printer config windows

Comment 8 David Tonhofer 2013-04-16 16:34:59 UTC
Created attachment 736439 [details]
A mangled window appears

Comment 9 David Tonhofer 2013-04-16 16:35:55 UTC
Created attachment 736440 [details]
A lonely text enters a two-level scrollbar...

Comment 10 Jiri Popelka 2013-04-17 08:44:49 UTC
I have generally very bad experience with Brother printers.
Either the support in packages we ship is very poor or the printers are not conforming with standards, I can't say.

I've seen many such reports, from the top of my mind-map:
bug 668059, bug 720460, bug 739325, bug 795824, bug 855009

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