[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#660348: cups: Prints one blank sheet regardless of document size (Brother HL-5240)

[Nate Bargmann]

Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.5-1
Followup-For: Bug #660348

Dear Maintainer,

The recent update of cups-filter did not solve my problem.  It was
hinted by Ubuntu bug 950713 that foomatic-filters 4.0.14 would solve
this issue, but it has made it worse with the foomatic HL-5240 driver.
The print job locks up the printer with all lights on the top panel
flashing, no printout, and the only way to clear the printer is to
remove power.  After killing the print the printer started spitting
spitting out blank sheets Upon power up.  To solve that I had to remove
power to the attached AXIS print server (setup as an LPD host).

I had not used the foomatic filter prior to this as I had used the
Brother supplied PPD for years without issue through many upgrades until
the CUPS 1.5.2 "upgrade".  Reverting to the original PPD I've used for
years is still broken as I get the same result as with the Foomatic
filters, which I need to clear the fault in the same manner.

Recently the only driver that has worked in any manner has been the
Generic PostScript Level 1 Printer Foomatic/Postscript1 driver.  Since
the foomatic-filters upgrade to 4.0.14 this driver does still generate
the correct print output.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.2-2
ii  ghostscript       9.05~dfsg-3
ii  libc6             2.13-27
ii  libcups2          1.5.2-8
ii  libcupsfilters1   1.0.5-1
ii  libcupsimage2     1.5.2-8
ii  libfontconfig1    2.8.0-3.1
ii  libgcc1           1:4.6.3-1
ii  libijs-0.35       0.35-8
ii  liblcms2-2        2.2+git20110628-2.1
ii  libpoppler13      0.16.7-3
ii  libstdc++6        4.6.3-1
ii  ttf-dejavu        2.33-2
ii  ttf-freefont      20100919-1
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
ii  colord            0.1.16-2
ii  foomatic-filters  4.0.14-1
ii  ghostscript-cups  9.05~dfsg-3

Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20120212-1

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