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[Till Kamppeter <1377173@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The error_log seems to be OK. What you should try is the "Generic PCL 5e
printer" if your printer is monochrome or the "Generic PCL 5c printer"
if your printer is color.

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Title:
  Brother MFC9840CDW Postscript driver fails to initialize for printing
  as Postscript

Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Printer Driver: Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/Postscript (color, 2-sided printing)
  Result when printing a page is plain text output like the following
  "%!PS-Adobe-3.0
    %Produced by poppler ..."
  followed by many form feeds.
  possible cause: The printer driver fails to initilize the printer with the right control sequence.
  reproducible: always

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: cups 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Fri Oct  3 16:01:51 2014
  Lpstat:
   device for MFC9840CDW: socket://10.0.0.20:9100
   device for MFC9840CDW_pxlcolor: socket://10.0.0.20:9100
  MachineType: Packard Bell DOTS E2
  Papersize: a4
  PpdFiles:
   MFC9840CDW: Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/Postscript
   MFC9840CDW_pxlcolor: Brother MFC9840CDW Foomatic/pxlcolor
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-36-generic root=UUID=16250f8e-725d-430c-8ccc-95387d8f9ba7 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: cups
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/22/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Packard Bell
  dmi.bios.version: V3.16(DDR3)
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: SJE02_PT_E
  dmi.board.vendor: Packard Bell
  dmi.board.version: V3.16(DDR3)
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Packard Bell
  dmi.chassis.version: V3.16(DDR3)
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPackardBell:bvrV3.16(DDR3):bd04/22/2011:svnPackardBell:pnDOTSE2:pvrV3.16(DDR3):rvnPackardBell:rnSJE02_PT_E:rvrV3.16(DDR3):cvnPackardBell:ct10:cvrV3.16(DDR3):
  dmi.product.name: DOTS E2
  dmi.product.version: V3.16(DDR3)
  dmi.sys.vendor: Packard Bell

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