Re: [Gimp-print-devel] brother MFC-J6920DW

[Gernot H. <aik...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:03 PM Gene Heskett <ghe...@sh...> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 14 February 2019 21:10:54 Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:35 AM Gene Heskett <ghe...@sh...>
> wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> >
> > Hi Gene,

Hi Gene,

> > > Is there any chance that this printer can, or will be supported at
> > > some point with a non brother driver /../
> >
> > Extremely doubtful, a quick look online did not even bring up any
> > specs of what protocols this printer uses/supports.
> > If it has support for common formats, then there is always a chance to
> > use a driver for that particular format. On the other hand, if not,
> > then chances are effectively nil.
> >
> Thats what I was afraid of. And TBT, its the cups list where I have been
> ignored. Not this one. My apologies.
> > /../
> >
> > > I have asked for, and been ignored, a description of the path in
> > > terms of what filters the data to print may be passing thru between
> > > the file to print, and whats fed down the cable to the printer in
> > > hopes I might be able to recompile it and make this printer usefull.
> > > The ppd supplied by the brother driver installer, has all these
> > > bells and whistles.
> >
> > That is a CUPS question, and easily achieved I presume by setting CUPS
> > log level to debug.
>
> I'll see if I can find that reference. I know it sure generates verbose
> logs, so verbose the real error is very hard to find.  But I'll look
> again.  Thanks Gernot.

When you set the CUPS log level to debug, just make sure you set the
file size to a large enough byte level (10MB or more maybe).
If you restart CUPS before doing your test maybe the log is rotated
(not sure) so you can start with a clean log.
Then hurriedly print the job and either stop CUPS or copy the log file
so it does not fill up more with the periodic CUPS messages.
You should easily find the messages regarding filters, and you can
always delete irrelevant CUPS messages in the copied log file
to make it more manageable.

Hope that helps.
Regards,
Gernot

> > It seems your issues are basically CUPS issues, so I would use the
> > CUPS mailing list to handle that.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Gernot Hassenpflug
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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