[CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:42:04PM -0500, H wrote:
> On 11/06/2019 01:56 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 10:01:49AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >> On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Have you tried adding the Brother CUPS and/or generic LPR software?
> >>>>
> >>>> https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll2360dw_us
> >>> I've been trying to folow directions, but no go.
> >>> The bad ELF interpreter really through me for a loop:
> >>>
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# rpm -ihv --nodeps ~hennebry/Downloads/*.rpm
> >>> Preparing...
> >>> ################################# [100%]
> >>> Updating / installing...
> >>>  1:hll2360dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1
> >>> ################################# [100%]
> >>> lpadmin -p HLL2360D -E -v
> >>> usb://Brother/HL-L2360D%20series?serial=U63883B7N499687 -P
> >>> /usr/share/ppd/brother/brother-HLL2360D-cups-en.ppd
> >>> restorecon:  lstat(/etc/opt/brother/Printers/HLL2360D) failed:  No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>> warning: %post(hll2360dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386) scriptlet failed,
> >>> exit status 255
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# rpm -ihv --nodeps ~hennebry/Downloads/*lpr*.rpm
> >>> Preparing...
> >>> ################################# [100%]
> >>> Updating / installing...
> >>>  1:hll2360dlpr-3.2.0-1
> >>> ################################# [100%]
> >>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1omOJ2:
> >>> /opt/brother/Printers/HLL2360D/inf/braddprinter:
> >>> /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# ls
> >>> cupsfilters.drv  hp  sample.drv
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# ls -F
> >>> cupsfilters.drv  hp/  sample.drv
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# pwd
> >>> /usr/share/cups/drv
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# ls ~/D*/*.rpm
> >>> ls: cannot access /root/D*/*.rpm: No such file or directory
> >>> [root at localhost drv]# ls ~hennebry/D*/*.rpm
> >>> /home/hennebry/Downloads/hll2360dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.rpm
> >>> /home/hennebry/Downloads/hll2360dlpr-3.2.0-1.i386.rpm
> >>> [root at localhost drv]#
> >>>
> >>> What happened?
> >>> How do I do it right?
> >> Apparently both rpms are installed,
> >> but even after restarting cups,
> >> the printer just receives data and goes back to sleep.
> >>
> >> I have no /etc/printcap.local or /etc/printcap .
> >> /etc/cups/printers.conf does not contain the string lp .
> >> It does have
> >> DeviceURI usb://Brother/HL-L2360D%20series?serial=U63883B7N499687
> >>
> >> Now what?
> >>
> >> -- 
> > It looks as if you downloaded the two RPMs from Brother then attempted
> > to follow their complicated instructions for installing them. Much
> > simpler is to do this:
> >
> > linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 is the brother printer driver
> > installer I used on my HL-L2360D.
> >
> > it asks a few questions, some more cryptic than others, and then
> > downloads and installes the required packages, after which I ran the
> > system-config-printer tool and set up my printer. Voila!
> >
> > As I also said previously in this thread, I set up the same printer
> > on Centos-8 without installing any Brother drivers, by going direct
> > to CUPS on port 631 and selecting Brother 2460 (since it didn't offer
> > 2360). Here are two entries from /etc/cups/printers.conf:
> >
> > MakeModel Brother HL-2460 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.14
> > DeviceURI ipp://192.168.2.98:631/ipp
> >
> > (That's the printer's IP shown there, not the system being set up.)
> >
> > and it appears to work fine, for small numbers of pages printed, but it
> > does print double-sided and multi-page documents.
> >
> > I don't know of any reason why this would not work on C7 as well,
> > though I haven't tried it, so YMMV and all that.
> >
> > If you can back out all the stuff you've hacked, I suggest you try
> > one or the other of those. Since the CUPS setup is probably simpler
> > and/or less invasive, I'd try that first, were I you.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Fred
> 
> I also have a Brother HL-L2360DW but am not happy with the print quality when I print PDF-documents. All text ends up "stippled" and hard to read when I print from the PDF-viewer in CentOS 7. Not sure what the problem is but given that a regular e-mail for instance prints fine, it would seem to have something to do with the PDF viewer, the printer driver or the printer when printing PDFs.
> 
> Anyone else has the same problem? How do I research this?

I haven't noticed any such problem (and as a former typographer
I'm fairly picky about my type). Can you upload an image of the
bad result somewhere?

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