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fireblaze347

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Brother printer not printing using cups

I have a DCP-J1050DW brother printer and it keeps saying no pages are found when trying to print it. It did manage to connect successfully through wifi I think so I'm not sure what is happening. My printer itself shows no signs of being connect so it looks like my PC is not sending anything to it.

this is what my /var/log/cups/error_log say

E [17/May/2026:14:20:55 +0800] [Client 3] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [17/May/2026:14:20:57 +0800] [Client 4] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [17/May/2026:19:09:22 +0800] [Client 5] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [17/May/2026:19:09:24 +0800] [Client 6] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [17/May/2026:20:14:12 +0800] [Client 7] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [17/May/2026:20:14:14 +0800] [Client 8] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [18/May/2026:20:17:58 +0800] [Client 3] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [18/May/2026:20:18:00 +0800] [Client 4] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [20/May/2026:15:22:58 +0800] [Client 5] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [20/May/2026:15:23:00 +0800] [Client 6] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [21/May/2026:18:22:53 +0800] [Client 3] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [21/May/2026:18:22:54 +0800] [Client 4] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [21/May/2026:21:25:32 +0800] [Client 7] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [21/May/2026:21:25:33 +0800] [Client 8] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [22/May/2026:14:46:44 +0800] [Client 9] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [22/May/2026:14:46:45 +0800] [Client 10] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [22/May/2026:19:57:02 +0800] [Client 22] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [22/May/2026:19:57:03 +0800] [Client 23] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:07:39:11 +0800] [Client 24] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:07:39:12 +0800] [Client 25] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:12:20:34 +0800] [Client 26] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:12:20:35 +0800] [Client 27] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:13:38:54 +0800] [Client 28] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:13:38:55 +0800] [Client 29] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:16:40:14 +0800] [Client 30] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [23/May/2026:16:40:15 +0800] [Client 31] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [24/May/2026:11:06:27 +0800] [Client 5] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [24/May/2026:11:06:28 +0800] [Client 6] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
W [24/May/2026:11:59:08 +0800] Notifier for subscription 50 (dbus://) went away, retrying!
E [24/May/2026:14:09:22 +0800] [Client 3] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [24/May/2026:14:09:23 +0800] [Client 4] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Create-Printer-Subscriptions (/) from localhost.
E [24/May/2026:19:37:39 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 89443) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:37:39 +0800] [cups-deviced] PID 89438 (driverless) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:40:41 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92147) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:40:41 +0800] [cups-deviced] PID 92142 (driverless) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:40:45 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92213) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:40:45 +0800] [cups-deviced] PID 92209 (driverless) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:40:57 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92362) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:07 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92512) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:09 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92544) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:11 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92577) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:13 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92608) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:15 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92652) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:21 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92730) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:41:25 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 92785) stopped with status 2!
W [24/May/2026:19:41:32 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:41:32 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:41:32 +0800] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:41:43 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:41:43 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:41:43 +0800] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
E [24/May/2026:19:42:20 +0800] [Job 1] No pages found!
E [24/May/2026:19:44:47 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 95362) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:44:47 +0800] [cups-deviced] PID 95356 (driverless) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:45:05 +0800] [CGI] ippfind (PID 95582) stopped with status 2!
E [24/May/2026:19:45:17 +0800] [Job 1] No pages found!
W [24/May/2026:19:45:43 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:45:43 +0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
W [24/May/2026:19:45:43 +0800] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name is not activatable
E [24/May/2026:19:45:47 +0800] [Job 1] No pages found!
E [24/May/2026:20:12:59 +0800] [Job 2] No pages found!
E [24/May/2026:20:15:03 +0800] [Job 3] No pages found!

seth

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Re: Brother printer not printing using cups

Please use [code][/code] tags. Edit your post in this regard.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/T … #Debug_log

Trying to print "what"?
http://localhost:631/printers/ - the admin dropdown has two test page prints, does either work?

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