Problems with graphic printing on Brother HL-1470N

(sorry did not see the notice about new newsgroups before after
posting on the closing list).

Hi,

I have a Brother HL-1470N laserprinter with network connection.
I'm using SuSE 9.2 Prof. with CUPS for printer control.

Some time ago I had problems with postscript error messages
when printing certain pages from pdf-documents and was
adviced to use the HL-1250 driver instead.
This solved the problem at hand with postscript errors
terminating the printout.

Now I need to print some graphics (logos on letters) and am
running into problems with the printing quality.
These logos (and not normal tekst from OpenOffice) print so
poorly (ragged and unclear) that an old 9-pin matrix printer
would perform better,

I suspected the printer driver and tried the official PPD file
from Brother (despite the fact it is claimed to be 2.4 kernel
only).

When using YaST the testpage now comes out very clear (and
much better than before with the HL-1250 PPD)

But when printing from OpenOffice and acroread I now get
postscript error messages - like:
"ERROR NAME undefined COMMAND filter OPERAND STACK --nametype--".
If I remove the two logos (gif-files) from the OpenOffice
document the error disappears.

I was informed by a danish newsgroup that the CUPS belonging
to SuSE 9.2 by default generates postscript level 3 syntax -
and my 1470N is only a level 2 printer.
I then used the OpenOffice printer configuration to force
level 2 postscript syntax (and verified the change by
printing to file) - but no change: graphics still generates
postscript errors when printing.


I found out that claiming the printer is a PCL printer I
get better results - but not good enough (it now looks like
a 24-pin matrix printer).

Just for the record: If I use the SuSE supplied PPD's the
printing also fails.

So either I'm am doing something wrong - or SuSE 9.2 does
not support the HL-1470N printer very well.

And it is frustrating that I bought exactly this printer
because it supports postscript and can work as a network
printer.

Can anyone give me any suggestions about what to do ?


/Martin Berg

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