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snah

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Registered: 2011-04-28

Posts: 4

CUPS with Brother drivers only printing letter size

Hi all,

I installed my Brother MFC J6530DW today and using the CUPS and the Brother drivers it will only print letter size.

I am using CUPS 2.2.11 and brother-mfc-j6530dw 1.0.1-0 (aur).
No matter what I try from the CUPS setup and default options or from the print dialogs of various programs, the printer output is always cropped to letter size; even when printing the CUPS test page.

After a lot of messing with the config files from Brother I managed to get an A3 print working. What I did was change the default papertype, pagesize and pageregion from letter to A3 in the following files:

/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj6530dw/inf/brmfcj6530dwrc
/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj6530dw/inf/brmfcj6530dwfunc
/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj6530dw/cupswrapper/brother_mfcj6530dw_printer_en.ppd

So now I can print A3, but I can no longer print A4, unless I change the files again.
I guess I could set up two separate printers in CUPS, one for A4 and one for A3, but there has to be a way to fix this right?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,513

Re: CUPS with Brother drivers only printing letter size

Check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Configuration

Hint: libpaper

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snah

Member

Registered: 2011-04-28

Posts: 4

Re: CUPS with Brother drivers only printing letter size

Thanks for the suggestion lone_wolf, but unfortunately that does not work, the output is still cropped.
It seems to me like something in the drivers is overwriting whatever papersize CUPS requests.

Something else that may be important: on the CUPS test page the media limits are always indicated correctly (it corresponds to the default as set in the CUPS web interface).