[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#690090: cups: Incorrect margins when printing to a Brother MFC-7460DN using cups >= 1.5.3

[Jannick Kuhr]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.3-1
Severity: important

I installed my Brother MFC-7460DN printer - following the installation guide
and using the Debian drivers provided by Brother [1] - on my Wheezy
installation and everything worked without any issues until May 2012 as it
already did on my Squeeze installation. Probably with the update to version
1.5.3 every printed page is shifted to the right and upwards, in spite of
correct page size settings. The same issue appeared also on a Archlinux
installation with the update to 1.5.3. On Exherbo Linux using 1.5.2 everything
still works as before.

There are some similar, older reports in the internet for other Brother
printers concering the conversion from pdf to ps using poppler's pdftops [2]. A
similar issue got fix by Ubuntu providing a poppler patch [3], which has been
used by Exherbo until August 2012. But even after dropping the patch [4]
printing on Exherbo still works (using cups 1.5.2). So I think these are
related, but different issues.

Perhaps the switch to the full pdf-based printing workflow [5]  with cups-1.5.3
caused the misbehavior of the Brother driver as it seems to be a  "PostScript
printer driver".

[1]
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html
#MFC-7460DN

[2] http://selig.ws/hejdo/en/computers/linux/brother-printing.html

[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-cups-wrapper-
extra/+bug/293832

[4]
http://git.exherbo.org/x11.git/commit/?id=294b53c571c0ef80234ea5b28283cc65ac655118

[5]
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdfasstandardprintjobformat



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2+b1
ii  cups-client            1.5.3-1
ii  cups-common            1.5.3-1
ii  cups-filters           1.0.18-2+b2
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.3-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.46
ii  dpkg                   1.16.8
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-6.1
ii  libacl1                2.2.51-8
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.31-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-35
ii  libcups2               1.5.3-1
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.3-1
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.3-1
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.3-1
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.0-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.7.1-7
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.31-1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu2
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.7.1-7
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.11-1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian7
ii  poppler-utils          0.18.4-3
ii  procps                 1:3.3.3-2
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.32

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.31-1
ii  colord                     0.1.21-1
ii  foomatic-filters           4.0.17-1
ii  ghostscript-cups           9.05~dfsg-6.1
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint  5.2.9-1

Versions of packages cups suggests:
pn  cups-bsd                                   <none>
pn  cups-pdf                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20120523-1
ii  hplip                                      3.12.6-3
ii  printer-driver-hpcups                      3.12.6-3
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.6-3
ii  udev                                       175-7

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd