My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge.
The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=two-sided-long-edge I've restarted CUPS on F38. The problem occurs with both gedit and vim. In the case of gedit, page setup tells me I've set it up correctly, but it still does the wrong thing.
Any ideas on what is wrong, how I can fix it or how I can find out?
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:04 AM Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge.
I think there have been changes to the PPD options for this. How are you connecting the printer -- wifi or USB?
My wife has a Canon Printer that support AirPrint. In Gnome Settings it gets <http://Canon MG7500 series._ipp._tcp.local:631>. On the "Printer Test Page" the entry for Make and Model has:
MG7500 series - IPP Everywhere
The Duples sectionis the PPD file is:
*OpenUI *Duplex: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *Duplex *en_CA.Translation Duplex/2-Sided Printing: "" *DefaultDuplex: None *Duplex None: "<</Duplex false>>setpagedevice" *en_CA.Duplex None/Off (1-Sided): "" *Duplex DuplexNoTumble: "<</Duplex true/Tumble false>>setpagedevice" *en_CA.Duplex DuplexNoTumble/Long-Edge (Portrait): "" *Duplex DuplexTumble: "<</Duplex true/Tumble true>>setpagedevice" *en_CA.Duplex DuplexTumble/Short-Edge (Landscape): "" *CloseUI: *Duplex
The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=two-sided-long-edge I've restarted CUPS on F38. The problem occurs with both gedit and vim. In the case of gedit, page setup tells me I've set it up correctly, but it still does the wrong thing.
Any ideas on what is wrong, how I can fix it or how I can find out?
Is this a new install or was the printer working under Fedora in the past?
That printer claims to support AirPrint, so should work with IPP Everywhere, but there are also legacy CUPS PPD files
See: https://www.pwg.org/index.html
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, George N. White III wrote:
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:04?AM Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge.
I think there have been changes to the PPD options for this. How are you connecting the printer -- wifi or USB?
USB When I first tried to install the printer, there was no option for this model.
The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=two-sided-long-edge I've restarted CUPS on F38. The problem occurs with both gedit and vim. In the case of gedit, page setup tells me I've set it up correctly, but it still does the wrong thing.
Is this a new install or was the printer working under Fedora in the past?
In worked under F35.
That printer claims to support AirPrint, so should work with IPP Everywhere, but there are also legacy CUPS PPD files
I have a separately downloaded brother-HLL2360D-cups-en.ppd from 2020. Apparently it did not work.
With F35, I had to download and build some code, brlaser, to make it work. With F38, I am using package printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64 from updates. Said package apparently defined "Model" Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser v6 (en) . The "Model" listed as current lacks the (en) .
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems
Not seeing a lot info information on either site. The latter seems to link to the source that was rpm'ed to make printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64 . Despite the name, I do not see memtion of specific problems.
I really hate the poke it and see what happens method of repair, but I might be reduced to it.
I have a similar-sounding brother laserprinter. I hate to say it, but I found the available open-source driver didn't produce correct output with mine, I had to use the proprietary driver from brother: hll2395dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 4:03 PM Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, George N. White III wrote:
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:04?AM Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
My Brother HL-L2360DW B&W laser printer is only printing in flip mode, i.e., when it prints 8.5x11 two-sided portrait, to read the back page, one must flip it vertically by a short side, rather that horizontally by a long edge.
I think there have been changes to the PPD options for this. How are you connecting the printer -- wifi or USB?
USB When I first tried to install the printer, there was no option for this model.
The defaults for the printer is set to job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=two-sided-long-edge I've restarted CUPS on F38. The problem occurs with both gedit and vim. In the case of gedit, page setup tells me I've set it up correctly, but it still does the wrong thing.
Is this a new install or was the printer working under Fedora in the
past?
In worked under F35.
That printer claims to support AirPrint, so should work with IPP Everywhere, but there are also legacy CUPS PPD files
I have a separately downloaded brother-HLL2360D-cups-en.ppd from 2020. Apparently it did not work.
With F35, I had to download and build some code, brlaser, to make it work. With F38, I am using package printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64 from updates. Said package apparently defined "Model" Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser v6 (en) . The "Model" listed as current lacks the (en) .
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems
Not seeing a lot info information on either site. The latter seems to link to the source that was rpm'ed to make printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64 . Despite the name, I do not see memtion of specific problems.
I really hate the poke it and see what happens method of repair, but I might be reduced to it.
-- Michael hennebry@mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "His longhand was fairly good in his youth, but as he got older it got smaller, more scribbly, and harder to read; although, like being hanged, one can get used to it." -- Gordon Dickson on H.P. Lovecraft's handwriting -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, Neal Becker wrote:
I have a similar-sounding brother laserprinter. I hate to say it, but I found the available open-source driver didn't produce correct output with mine, I had to use the proprietary driver from brother: hll2395dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm
Nope. Didn't work either. Brother's driver made it stop printing altogether, apparently put it in the state noted in my "pretends to print" thread. Even though I had the brlaser package installed, I decided to try the source version. I unplugged the printer, updated the repository I already had, and built according to instructions. For install, I did not directly use sudo. Instead I changed the ownership of the target directories and changed them back after installation. After reconnecting the printer, still no go, not with the orginal name, nor with the fedora-generated name. Just for grins, I deleted both printers and put one back. Now it prints correctly.
I hate these mighty struggles, but at least I won this one.
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