On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
When I try to print double sided to this printer I get a single page
reading:
ERROR NAME;
stackunderflow
COMMAND;
pop
OPERAND STACK;
I almost always see this when printing anything double sided from
Firefox or from Acroread, but not when printing from Okular or
LibreOffice. There are other weird problems, but too erratic to
report.
System is Fedora-17 fully up to date, running on x86_64 hardware. The
ppd file appears to come from:
foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-31.20120103.fc17.noarch
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:22 -0500, fred smith wrote:
Um,... try choosing a different driver, one of the ones that Cups
provides, or one of the foomatic drivers, and see how they work.
Or try a generic PCL or PostScript driver and see what happens.
If the printer is receiving the PS and is choking on it, it may be
that you could avoid that by using one of its other "personalities",
e.g. PCL3/PCL5/whatever instead (as mentioned above).
On 11/26/2012 12:48 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
A good idea. I've tried the 5 printers suggested by
system-config-printer for this model printer with the following results.
(Testing all the 3767 drivers in the Foomatic database seems a little
excessive.)
Brother-HL-5250DN BR-Script3
Double sided printing FAILS
Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript
Double sided printing FAILS
Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/lj5gray
Driver FAILS completely (see below for error message)
Brother-HL-5250DN Foomatic/pxlmono
Double sided printing WORKS
Page download so slow as to be unusable
Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript
Double sided printing FAILS
Attempting to print the test page for the Foomatic/lj5gray driver
produces this output on the printer:
PCL XL error
Subsystem: Kernel
Error: ExtraData
Operator: 0xc1
Position: 7
Thanks to all - jon
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 10:50 -0500, fred smith wrote:
SIGH!
Have you tried talking to Brother about the original issue when using
their driver?
No. But I'm not optimistic, since I'm using the Foomatic driver
archive.
Oh, have you also checked to see if they have a firmware update for
that printer?
Thanks for the suggestion. They did; I installed it; no improvement.
and as much as I hate to even think this word, have you tried to see
if
the printer (and the appropriate Brother driver) works properly on Windoze?
The printer with its driver works OK on Windoze XP.
jon