Brother 1250 help needed :-(((

[derfalke]

Hi

After Days of installing I've got a very fast well working Gentoo Workstation.
Everything could be sooooo good .. if my printer would work !

It's a Brother 1250 hanging on an little Intel Printserver.
Printing from Windowsdoes work very good, so printer & server are working,

I'm using Cups with foomatic configured as follows :

Device : LPD/LPR Host or Printer
Device URI: lpd://192.168.1.20/NetPrint
Printer/Model : Brother HL-1250 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended)

When I try to print the printer seems to get Data for it starts to
print - but unfortunatly just trash.

At the beginning I got some plain Text - last readable line is :
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL

followed by empty papers and control-chars

So I would say hardware ist working, connection too but my printer
does not understand me, right ? But it is the right driver, isn't it ?
I also tried some other brother drivers I found on the net - same problem.


Can anyone tell me what I could do or try next ?!? I'm running
out of ideas ! please !


Greetings,
Adam

[derfalke]

oh, and by the way :

I've tried several Driver :

-rw------- 1 root root 52972 Nov 4 15:21 Brother-HL-1250-gimp-print.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24500 Sep 24 12:33 Brother-HL-1250-hl1250-ppd.ppd
-rw------- 1 root root 10999 Sep 24 13:43 Brother-HL-1250-hl1250.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21828 Sep 24 12:33 Brother-HL-1250-ljet4-ppd.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29514 Sep 24 12:33 Brother-HL-1250-omni-ppd.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21673 Sep 24 12:33 Brother-HL-1250-pxlmono-ppd.ppd

some of them did it almost - I got even pictures from the printer test page.
But they have been printed seperated trough many pages and did look very poor ...
even plain Text is - if printed - not really readabel.

(printer - as mentioned - is working fine under win)

greetings,
Adam