Wrong default driver for Brother MFC-8600

Can you please remove your printer and let it be detected automatically again and then attach your /var/log/syslog

I've attached my syslog after performing your instructions.

Thanks for looking into this and have a great day!!

Regards,

Shannon VanWagner
http://healthysystem.blogspot.com

Hello Shannon,

This is because your printer is not known in the foomatic database on http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
An entry for the MFC-8300 is already in the foomatic database: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-MFC-8300
The recommended driver for the MFC-8300 seems to be hl7x0 which performs best for text and line art.

Please test the drivers listed on the MFC-8300 page and submit a new entry for your printer MFC-8600 here: http://openprinting.org/edit_printer.cgi?newentry=1 to get it into the foomatic database. Since Ubuntu uses the foomatic database this will automatically be included in future releases of Ubuntu as soon as the information is in the foomatic database.

On the other hand hal_lpadmin should not match the wrong PPD: lsb/usr/openprinting/Brother/BR8640_2_GPL.ppd.gz for your Brother MFC-8600 printer in case a driver for your printer is missing in the foomatic database.

hal-cups-utils does not automatically create print queues any more without an exact model match. In such a case it starts system-config-printer for interactive setup of the printer. So the hal-cups-utils task is completed.

Added printer to Foomatic database upstream.

This bug was fixed in the package foomatic-db - 20090617-0ubuntu1

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foomatic-db (20090617-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Many new printer models added (Fixes: LP: #10871, LP: #83960,
      LP: #114681, LP: #121060, LP: #258058, LP: #273975, LP: #343444,
      LP: #371737).
    - More user-friendly UI strings for the "Print Quality" option in some
      Brother PPD files (LP: #141487).
    - Replaced broken PPD for the Kyocera FS-9100DN by the one for the
      FS-9120DN (LP: #344691).
    - Added "*cupsFilter:" lines to all PCL-XL PPD files from Ricoh and OEM
      so that they accept PDF as input format. This assures that always the
      most straightforward CUPS filter chain gets used and interferences
      between filters (like LP: #361772) get avoided.
    - Removed "Black and White" Color Mode (1 bit per pixel) from the
      "cdj550" driver. This mode is not supported by the driver (LP: #337133).
    - DesignJet driver assignement fixes, new "cdnj500" driver.
    - Correction of auto-detection strings.
    - Addition of CUPS custom option definitions to the PPDs from Ricoh
      family and OEM.
    - New "pxldpl" driver entry for the Dell 3010cn and Dell DPL printers
      in general.
  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - Driver entries removed for drivers which are not shipped by Ubuntu
    - Fixed manufacturer-supplied PPDs: "*CloseUI <option>" ->
      "*CloseUI: <option>", "*1284DeviceId" -> "*1284DeviceID".
    - openprinting-ppds-extra package with PPDs from Ricoh family and OEM
      and non-English PPDs from Kyocera
    - Linked PPD files with Foomatic database, so that links in the Foomatic
      XML files keep working.
    - Removed link into /usr/share/cups/model, it makes PPDs appearing
      twice.
    - debian/patches/bjc600-bjc800.patch: Removed workaround for Ghostscript
      crashing when feeding bjc600/bjc800 drivers with PDF. The Ghostscript
      shipped by Ubuntu is fixed.
    - foomatic-filters-ppds discontinued upstream, updated debian/control
      appropriately.
    - foomatic-db does not make sense without foomatic-db-engine and
      foomatic-filters, made the Recommends: a Depends:.

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:34:49 +0200