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Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW

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On 08/04/2017 08:58 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 04 Aug 2017 at 12:25:51 +0000, Curt wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-08-04, Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Just very quickly found this bug that seems to be relevant to your case,
>> Jape. As you didn't describe the "garbled" condition of your printouts
>> with the "driverless" driver I can't be sure but it seems a fair guess.
>>
>> Apparently a resolution dpi error (reported as 600x2dpi--firmware
>> bug?--and set that way by cups in the PPD.  Workaroundable by modifying
>> the PPD manually as explained in the thread).
> 
> Definitely a firmware bug; the printer is non-conforming. cups-browsed
> puts the incorrect information in the PPD because it queries the printer
> and that is what it is told.
>   

Seems like this must be the case. Too bad. Updating firmware on this 
thing requires trundling it out of the den, down the hall and to the 
living room so I can attach it to a Windows box.

I'll look into this and get back to you and Curt to let you know whether 
or not the printer is already running the latest firmware.

>> BTW at the Brother site I think they're recommending updating the
>> firmware for this printer (maybe not for the reasons explicited here).
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868360
> 
> If the OP has his testing systems up-to-date, he should not be seeing
> this bug.
> 

All three testing systems are upgraded daily, so I'll check into it and 
get back to you.

Again, many thanks to you and Curt.

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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
        Re: pesky and persistent "driverless" Brother MFC-9340CDW Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-06 02:10 +0200

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