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pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

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A few weeks ago a CUPS upgrade to our Debian testing systems started 
showing a new driver for our Brother MFC-9340CDW in print dialogs and in 
the CUPS printer list and in the system-config-printer utility.

You'd think that was good news, but we've been unable to find any way to 
make the queue for this "driverless" instance of the printer function 
properly.

The only way we can print with this printer is to do what we were doing 
before the new "driverless" instance of the printer showed up. We add a 
printer to the system via system-config-printer or the CUPS Web browser 
dialog and deliberately select the Brother MFC-9320CW Foomatic or 
Brother Script-3 driver. (That's not a typo. I'm deliberately choosing a 
different model.) Both of those PPDs work. I have to provide a 
deliberately altered name for this instance so users can tell it from 
the one that doesn't work.

The particularly annoying thing about this situation is that I cannot 
delete the "driverless" instance of the printer from CUPS / 
system-config-printer. The instant it is deleted, it is automatically 
re-detected and added back to the printer list. But anyone who chooses 
to print to it is going to get a distorted or garbled printout.

I was able to set a policy in the instance so that only root can print 
to it, so a regular user isn't going to waste time and paper. Still, it 
would be nicer if I could turn off the advertisement that the printer 
and the operating system is providing for the "driverless" instance.

I've found nothing in the printer's menu system or in its Web interface 
that would seem to pertain.

Ideas, anyone?

Thanks,
JP

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pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 04:00 +0200
  Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-04 12:40 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 20:20 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 00:50 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 02:30 +0200
          Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 15:00 +0200
            Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 17:50 +0200
            Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-08-05 18:50 +0200
              Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 19:20 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 20:30 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 20:50 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 21:20 +0200
                Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-06 00:50 +0200
  Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-08-04 14:30 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-04 15:00 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 20:30 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 22:20 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 01:10 +0200
          Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 02:40 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 20:20 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-05 01:10 +0200
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-05 02:50 +0200
    Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-04 22:10 +0200
      Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-08-06 01:40 +0200
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