[CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

[MHR]

Follow-up

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I looked up the drivers at
> http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2140 and
> decided to try the hpijs-pcl5e ("recommended driver"), and it prints a
> test page just fine, also odts, pdfs, jpgs and pngs, but it doesn't
> print this particular pdf either.  The main difference is that it
> hangs the print job and lpstat shows this:
>
> $ lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> system default destination: Brother2140
> device for Brother2140: usb://Brother/HL-2140%20series
> device for HPOJ4315: hp:/usb/Officejet_4300_series?serial=CN7AJH318W04GQ
> Brother2140 accepting requests since Tue 01 Jun 2010 11:14:16 AM PDT
> HPOJ4315 accepting requests since Thu 22 Apr 2010 10:47:46 AM PDT
> printer Brother2140 is idle.  enabled since Tue 01 Jun 2010 11:14:16 AM PDT
>        /undefined in --get--
> printer HPOJ4315 is idle.  enabled since Thu 22 Apr 2010 10:47:46 AM PDT
> Brother2140-5135        mhr             200704   Tue 01 Jun 2010 11:11:09 AM PDT
>
> So at least I get an error indication, not just silence.
>

OTOH, the hpijs driver is about 1/3 as fast as the CUPS driver.

It also seems to keep the printer humming a lot longer after each
print job is done (not 100% sure about that).

I'm going back to the CUPS driver.

Foo.

mhr