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