Follow-up
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, MHR mhullrich@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