I keep having problems with printing.
I’m currently using CUPS, except for the login problems with the admin account, it works everywhere - but somehow everything is not going well.
The printers are not recognized properly by the clients, they work for a while, but the printing service regularly goes on strike.
Which is the optimal solution to provide a central printing service?
Is it foreseeable whether a current CUPS version will be updated soon?
There’s savapage but it bases on CUPS. I didn’t see an epel testing package so don’t know when there will be a new version…
So let’s find the error fix it.
Is there anything relevant in /var/log/messages?
Check CUPS status:
lpstat -t
Enable debug log with cupsctl --debug-logging, send a print job and check /var/log/cups/error_log for errors.
Disable debug log with cupsct --no-debug-logging
Did you install a Brother driver from the Brother page? Maybe try another one?
Check installed PPDs:
egrep -i "name|model|filter" /etc/cups/ppd/*
Did you already update the printer firmware?
Archlinux provides some CUPS troubleshooting tips: