This is not a bug of Ubuntu or any software shipped with it. It is a bug ot Brother's driver packages. The driver is not following the CUPS standards where default option settings are set in the PPD in /etc/cups/ppd/ by CUPS and drivers read the defaults from there. I am also not sure whether per-job options, which CUPS supplies to all its filters via the fifth command line argument get used by Brother's CUPS wrapper (can someone here test?).
This is a bug of the architecture of the Brother drivers. The drivers themselves are made for the LPD spooler and a simple CUPS wrapper was written to make them working with CUPS, but it seems that the CUPS wrapper is not passing settings over from CUPS to the LPD driver. The LPD driver seems to always take the settings from its on configuration file which is specific to the driver and so no printing dialog or printer setup tool uses it. Please contact brother via the web site http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html and ask them to make drivers which really work with CUPS. At Ubuntu we cannot do anything here. Closing ... ** Changed in: brother-cups-wrapper-extra (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- [Lucid]Brother CUPS wrapper fails to change LPR driver settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550764 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
