Printing using CUPS

[Carmel]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 06:59:42 +0200
Matthias Apitz articulated:

> El día Friday, September 30, 2011 a las 04:57:14PM -0400, Carmel
> escribió:
> 
> > I am in the process of setting up a Brother MFC-9560CDW printer on a
> > FreeBSD-8.2 amd64 machine. It is a network printer and works fine
> > with the Windows machines on the network. Not so much with the
> > FreeBSD machine.
> > 
> > CUPS detects the printer:
> > 
> > Description:	Brother MFC-9560CDW
> > Location:	Local Printer
> > Driver:	Brother MFC-9560CDW CUPS (color, 2-sided printing)
> > Connection:	lpd://BRW0022587025CB/BINARY_P1
> > Defaults:	job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in
> > sides=one-sided
> > 
> > However, the connection does not work correctly. I changed it
> > to:lpd://192.168.1.100/BINARY_P1 and I can print a "self text page"
> > from CUPS. However, I cannot print a "test page" from within CUPS,
> > nor can I print anything from any other application.
> > 
> > I have perused the log files without any success. This limited
> > printing has got me totally baffled. I am open to suggestions as to
> > what to try next.
> 
> While configuring the printer in CUPS, have you used some PPD file?
> If so, check the PPD file which filter it will use.
> 
> Set also the LogLevel to 'debug' in cupsd.conf, print a text file and
> check the messages in CUPS' log file.

This is the beginning of the *.ppd file:

*%================================================
*%      Copyright(C) 2010 Brother Industries, Ltd.
*%      "Brother MFC-9560CDW CUPS"
*%================================================ 

*%==== General Information Keywords ========================
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.1.3"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName: "MFC9560W.PPD"
*Manufacturer: "Brother"
*Product: "(MFC-9560CDW)"
*1284DeviceID: "MFG:Brother;MDL:MFC-9560CDW"
*cupsVersion: 1.1
*cupsManualCopies: false
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brlpdwrappermfc9560cdw"
*cupsModelNumber: 4
*ModelName: "Brother MFC-9560CDW"
*ShortNickName: "MFC-9560CDW"
*NickName: "Brother MFC-9560CDW CUPS"
*PSVersion: "(3010.106) 3"

There is no "brlpdwrappermfc9560cdw" file located on this unit if that
is what you are looking for.

This has really got me stumped. 

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