On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:02:12 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote:

> E. Liddell composed on 2019-03-12 18:54 (UTC-0400):
> 
> > Brother's CUPS drivers are next to useless, 
> 
> How do we know that? I've had my Brother HL5470DW (IP connected) more than 2 years. If it's not
> working right, how do I tell? The test pages YaST2 prints look normal. Other than online purchase
> invoices I print rarely. WRT printing, I don't remember installing anything other than two rpms
> downloaded from Brother's web site:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 18743 Jun  5  2012 hl5470dwcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 37106 Jun  5  2012 hl5470dwlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> 
> printer setup:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/broHL5470DW-qOpts423.jpg

The problems I had with the Brother driver for my own printer (before I switched to the PostScript
driver) strongly suggested it had been created for an obsolete version of CUPS (1.7.X?) and 
then left to bit-rot.  I could be wrong about the cause of the problems, and it's possible that the 
driver for your (completely different) printer hasn't yet had time to decay.  The driver I had was 
likewise downloaded from Brother's website and came in the form of .rpm files.

Note that the printer *sort of* worked with the Brother driver, depending on what I tried to
print and how, and I can't remember all the problems because it was more than a year ago.
I do know that it couldn't print in landscape mode, because that was what pointed me in the
direction of the CUPS version difference, and I *think* I remember it barfing with a filter problem
in a different PDF viewer (possibly Adobe Acrobat, which I don't have on this computer but
did on the old one).

E. Liddell (who just switched email providers because I was tired of GMail's over-aggressive
spam protection.  Hopefully this will work better.)