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[Trevor Robinson <eztenia@xxxxxxxxx>]

This has been happening to me in Trusty (14.04) now for a while.
Manually changing the printer to "Foomatic/hl1250" works fine, as I'm
sure other non-Postscript drivers do, and "Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e" is
marked as Recommended, but the Postscript one is always selected upon
install and sometimes when just plugging it into a different port than
usual. The Postscript driver still produces infinite blank pages.

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Title:
  Brother HL 2040 prints infinite blank pages

Status in “foomatic-db” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: cups

  I have a Brother HL 2040 Printer.  It normally lives plugged into my
  dd-wrt router as a print server.  It worked fine with Ubuntu 10.10.
  Recently I have been testing 11.04.

  As soon as I upgraded it stopped working.  Now when I go to print
  something it just spits out blank pages, until it runs out of pages or
  I turn it off.

  I can still print fine from my ubuntu 10.10 netbook.

  I have tried plugging the printer in via USB to see if there was a
  problem with the print server.  It still spits out blank pages.  So I
  think it must be a regression in the printer driver in 11.04.

  I also have a HP CP1215, which also lives plugged into to my dd-wrt
  router.  This works just fine with 11.04.  So it is only some printers
  that have the problem.

  1.
  glen@glen-desktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
  Release:	11.04

  2.
  glen@glen-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy cups
  cups:
    Installed: 1.4.6-5ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1.4.6-5ubuntu1

  3. I expected my document to print.

  4.  My printer vomited blank pages.
    Version table:
   *** 1.4.6-5ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Apr 22 11:10:53 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
  Lpstat:
   device for Brother-HL-2140: socket://192.168.1.1:9100
   device for HL-2040-series: usb://Brother/HL-2040%20series
   device for HP-Color-LaserJet-CP1215: socket://192.168.1.1:9101
   device for Lexmark-Optra-Color-1200: usb://Lexmark/1200%20Series
  Papersize: letter
  PpdFiles:
   HL-2040-series: Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/Postscript
   Lexmark-Optra-Color-1200: Lexmark Optra Color 1200 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)
   Brother-HL-2140: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/Postscript
   HP-Color-LaserJet-CP1215: HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=ff583bee-3011-454f-bfc6-1bc96b1f4eac ro splash quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: cups
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2006
  dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
  dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
  dmi.board.name: LP NF4 Series
  dmi.board.vendor: DFI Corp,LTD
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/06/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnDFICorp,LTD:rnLPNF4Series:rvr1.0:cvn:ct3:cvr:

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