Hello,
my brother HL1430 printer cuts off some lines at the very top and bottom of A4 pages. I tried some available drivers, they all showed the same behavior.
Printer is installed as an IP printer, if this makes any difference. I’d be grateful for any ideas.
Thanks.
Maybe wrong paper type, it could be still on ‘letter’ and not ‘A4’.
Check also ‘/usr/local/Brother/Printer/yourprintername/inf/yourprintername.cnrc’ and have a look at the paper type setting there. Or search for that file if it is not in that location.
In my case it was still on letter, even though I had changed it before to A4 in the cups setting.
it should be:
PaperType=A4
After changing the setting in the above file, either reboot or restart cups
sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
I can’t find any file with the ending .cnrc.
There are some files for the printer at
/var/cache/cups/
/etc/cups/ppd/
Assuming the paper size options are ok (check page size and margins in print properties menu), it may be a driver issue I guess. If you print to file first, then take the generated PDF and print that, does the page print as expected?
To get an idea about which driver (filter) you’re using run this from a terminal.
grep 'Filter' /etc/cups/ppd/*
Does a test page print ok?
Select the printer > Maintenance > Print Test Page
I had to install the driver for my printer with the driver files from the Brother webpage. Maybe that made a difference.
Did you use YAST to install your driver?
You can try to change the cups setting via http://localhost:631/ in your browser.
I had a quick look at the Brother website, but no proprietary driver exists for this model. It’s likely to be using a gutenprint driver, which can be confirmed by examining the PPD (see my last post).
I also looked and found one. I am German and use the german language setting for their webpage. It offered me a driver and driver install tool in English or Chinese. When I checked their US webpage, I also came up empty. Strange.
Yes strange. I did find it on the UK page
http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=gb&lang=en&prod=hl1430_eu
Anyway, a good idea to change to this driver if possible.
It works correctly now with the driver from the Brother website.
Thanks a lot, guys, for this very quick and useful help!
Thanks for the update. Well done.