After clicking print and processing pages.. it just stops

[gene heskett]

On 10/3/24 11:29, David Fletcher wrote:
> Maybe a bit off topic, but....
> 
> Because printing problems have been mentioned, I'd like to say, after a
> certain amount of wasted time paper and toner I've never had much
> confidence in printing directly from LibreOffice etc. to my Brother
> HL3040CN which is network connected. I use the same little server
> computer as does my email etc. to drive it, installed by the Brother
> installer script.
> 
> My adopted method of getting it right first time is to prepare two pdfs
> for odd and even sheets including the multiple copies in the pdfs. Then
> use document viewer to check that the pdfs really are exactly what I
> want to print before sending them, even sheets first to the printer.
> 
> The last really annoying problem that I had with printing multiple
> copies was that the printer would spit out blank sheets between each
> copy which is why I print the multiple copies of odd/even pages to pdfs
> which does work properly, then send that to the printer which also
> works properly because so far as it's concerned only a single copy of a
> multiple page document is being printed.
> 
> I've no idea whether the bugs that affect me are living in the Brother
> driver or CUPS. They don't really matter to me any more because I have
> a work around that I actually prefer to use because I can check that
> the full print job is exactly what I want before sending it off to the
> server.
> 
> Dave

I have 2 brother printers, both can do duplex by default. cups will not 
present me with that duplex choice, and in the case of my dual src tray 
ink squirter insists on using from tray one, which contains dollar a 
sheet photo  paper. Removing cups-browsed lets me use the brother 
drivers, which can do everything the printer can do, like printing 1100 
some pages of LinuxCNC docs in full color, in one go, duplexed on a tad 
over one 7 dollar ream of cheap copy paper from Wally's.

I'll do a shutup about superior results from brothers drivers when cups 
can do that.
> 
> 

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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