Brother HL-730 prints infinite junk
I've had this problem for three Ubuntu releases. Enough is enough. When I try to print using Ubuntu 8.04 and a Brother HL-730 Plus printer the output often looks like this:
%-12345X@PJL
This kind of stuff gets printed out forever on every page until I cancel the job and power down the printer. Occasionally, when I restart the printer it will start to work ok as long as I print the test page first, but usually when I turn the printer back on it goes back to printing garbage.
I use a USB cable to connect the printer. I installed the printer with the default driver using the simple steps in the Ubuntu printing utility. I've found others with similar problems and have reinstalled everything as instructed, but the problem persists. It looks to me like the printer command is being printed instead of the content of what is supposed to be printed. What is going on? What should I do?
Here's the printingbuginfo output:
ProblemType: printingbuginfo v2.0: printingbug+
CupsConfiguredD
device for HL-730: usb://Brother/
device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
CupsConfiguredPPDs:
HL-730: Brother HL-730 Foomatic/hl7x0 (recommended)
PDF: Generic PDF file generator
Date: Thu Dec 25 22:46:34 2008
DesktopEnvironment: none
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
EtcPapersize: letter
InstalledPrinti
ii cupsys 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cupsys-
ii foo2zjs 20071205-0ubuntu3.1 Support for printing to ZjStream-based printers
ii foomatic-db 20080211-0ubuntu1 OpenPrinting printer support - database
ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20070719-
ii foomatic-db-hpijs 20070813-0ubuntu2 OpenPrinting printer support - database for HPIJS driver
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-
ii ghostscript 8.61.dfsg.
ii gnome-cups-manager 0.31-3ubuntu5 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii gs-common 8.61.dfsg.
ii gs-esp 8.61.dfsg.
ii gs-esp-x 8.61.dfsg.
ii hpijs 2.8.2+2.
ii hplip 2.8.2-0ubuntu8.1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.18.4-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - runtime files
ii min12xxw 0.0.9-1build1 Printer driver for KonicaMinolta PagePro 1[234]xxW
ii openprinting-ppds 20080211-0ubuntu1 OpenPrinting printer support - PostScript PPD files
ii pnm2ppa 1.12-16 PPM to PPA converter
ii pxljr 1.1-0ubuntu1 Driver for HP's Color LaserJet 35xx/36xx color laser printers
ii splix 1.1.1-0ubuntu1 Driver for Samsung's SPL2 (bw) and SPLc (color) laser printers
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=
Uname: Linux dell 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UsbPrinterDevices:
UsbPrinterIEEE1
UsbPrinterKerne
usblp 15872 0
usbcore 146412 9 snd_usb_
lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 030: ID 05e3:0301 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Here is the output from the Printing troubleshooter:
Page 1 (Choose printer):
{'cups_dest': <cups.Dest object at 0x86ff520>,
'cups_instance': None,
'cups_queue': 'HL-730',
'cups_
Page 2 (Check printer sanity):
{'cups_
'cups_
'is_cups_class': False}
Page 3 (Printer state reasons):
{'printer-
'printer-
Page 4 (Print test page):
{'test_
Page 5 (Printer state reasons):
{'printer-
'printer-
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