Cups issues

[Kevin Fries]

I have two brother printers and they both work perfectly with Ubuntu.

Brother maintains its own webpage with Linux drivers for all its printers.
The site offers all its drivers in both RPM and DEB format.

A Google search should find the URL.

HTH
Kevin
On Mar 8, 2012 12:59 AM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Since there are printer users here it seems, I was wondering if anyone
> else has run into this...
>
> I recently acquired a Brother color laser (mfc-9440cn), and cannot get it
> to print from my ubuntu box.  I've been doing everything via cups local web
> interface for setup/add and everything tests and test prints ok, but any
> image comes out blank white.  Local tests and prints all work fine, but
> nothing aside from the ubuntu test page has printed successfully via an
> actual "print".
>
> I've ensured ghostscript is there, everything looks ok in status
> before/after, i just get nothing printed.  Scanning to it via the network
> works dandy with the drivers, just something isn't right with something
> with how apps are sending to the printer drivers.  I hardly ever print
> anything anymore, and simply haven't used printing features enough to have
> run into it, so I'm hoping one of you might have seen this.
>
> Googling various iterations of 'brother white blank pages' hasn't resulted
> in much after hours.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -mb
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