You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter shepper Start date Mar 6, I initially set it up with lpr, Brothers Postscript3 ppd and foomatic-rip. There were 2 issues: 1 The minor, easily fixed issue was the Brother ppd default papersize was a4. Some internet searches indicated that others had this issue. For the moment, I switched my print filter from foomatic-rip to the pxlmono driver.
Using the pxlmono driver, images embedded in pdf's, duplexing and resolution settings all work fine. I've yet to play with the MP tray. I get printer status using a web interface to the local IP address. There are a lot of variables. If the documents being printed are text and the PS interpreter in the printer is good, print speed can be faster than using Ghostscript and then dumping a bitmap.
If the documents are bitmaps, conversion to PS can make them substantially larger, taking more time to send to the printer. If you are really concerned, it can be benchmarked. But if the printer PS interpreter can't render the documents correctly, there is not much point. The problem with graphics is likely just a bug in BRScript. It might be that they only tested it with graphics generated on a particular platform Windows and those graphics are generated with some assumptions that are not true for other platforms.
It does seem to be a bug. I tried this fix but the script died. I'm having real good results with the pxlmono driver although for future lpr users, I would recommend not paying the extra money for a BR-script3 capable printer unless you know your just going to be printing text.
Edit: I was able to get brother based postscript to work. Even images. The ppd's I downloaded from brother had the issues.
The one I generated with foomatic-db, using the Brother entries in the foomatic database, worked fine. Last edited: Apr 10, That same preprocessing could be done with ps2ps 1 , which comes with Ghostscript. Your computer is probably much faster than the printer, so converting it that way might still be faster than sending PCL bitmaps.
It can be done transparently with just an input filter. Oko Daemon Reaction score: Messages: 1, Click to expand Hi shepper. I have also had some issues which I am not entirely sure of the cause.
I had to print a shipping label a few days ago that was an image. First I used Firefox print to file postscript which produced a blank page when printed. Then I used Firefox print to file pdf and converted it to postscript using pdf2ps from ghostscript which produced a printed page that was all messed up. The image looked shifted and stretched all down the page.
Then I converted that same pdf using pdftops from xpdf and that finally produced a usable printed page. I also tried printing some random pdfs I have and xpdf's pdftops won every time compared to ghostscript's pdf2ps which was a mixed bag, printing either a blank page or a very distorted one. Whatever difference these three have when making postscript files and how the printer interprets them I have no idea.
Brother says their BR-script3 is fully compatible with the postscript specification. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter Alfatrion Start date Jun 14, Alfatrion Member Reaction score: 4 Messages: I am looking for some tips on setting up my printer.
I have a really hard time getting it to work. According to this post [2] for a similar printer [3] and this post [4] setup should be easy and the printer should accept text and ghostscript. I am wondering about what I am doing wrong. Any tips would me much appreciated! Click to expand I think you have been misled down the wrong path on the UK Brother site. I've been mostly using the laserjet-emulation on most brother printers and used the generic laserjet PCL driver. This usually works out-of-the-box, sometimes with some minor limitations.
What also works is extracting the ppd from a linux or mac driver package from the manufacturers website. This way I'm printing e.
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