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Brother HL-1210W; 1200HQ mode #40
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This fixes HL-1210W, maybe other HL printers as well?
Thanks! That was a mysterious issue that was reported with many Brother HL-series printers. I'll check with a couple of other reporters and make a new release soon. |
You're welcome. To add some further info: 600dpi seems to work fine on my printer now, but out of curiousity I tried printing once at 1200dpi and it failed for a normal (so moderately complex) document. I suspect that the value might need to be even lower (half?) for that. As I am not really interested in that resolution / mode I didn't do any further investigation but can do that if you want - just drop me a note. Are the values that are currently in the driver basically reverse-engineering guesses or is there some kind of further reasoning behind them? |
It's mostly guesswork, based on my old DCP-7030. It seems to work well on DCP-series printers, but the HL-series seems to behave just a little different. |
@pdewacht: hello, any ETA on when is this changes going to be pushed in printer-driver-brlaser package? Thanks |
Sorry to bother everyone again, but I think it is fair to notice here that I again had trouble printing a document using my HL-1210W with default settings (600dpi). This time I tried to print a RGB JPEG scan of 300dpi (A4) that I converted to PDF using imagemagick's Lowering the value of |
DCP-1512E here :) Similar problem noticed - 1200HQ mode did not print anything. I've set |
I had this issue on my printer HL-L2340D. This commit fixed the issue for me. |
This is more similar to what the Brother driver does. This might fix pdewacht#52, pdewacht#40, etc.
Hi,
I own a brother HL-1210W printer. The printer prints the test page in cups correctly when installed. However, it silently fails for me for more complex documents. The printer LED will blink and then stop with the printer seemingly returning a succesful status, as all such jobs are presented as successful in the CUPS system.
However, I noticed that I can tweak your driver to get it to print complex documents. The following change seems to do the trick:
The
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seems to be a sharp limit; with any higher value it doesn't work. Tested with generating a 4958x7008 1-bit image ingimp
, filling it with 50% random black pixels, saving as.ps
(default options) and then usinggstoraster
followed byrastertobrlaser
. Also tested with a simple printed web page from firefox that resulted in a raster file of the same dimensions fromgstoraster
.Hope this helps and thanks for writing the driver.
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