Comment 35 for bug 550764

After installing some update this issue reappeared for me.
I purged the all brother drivers (printer scanner fax),
reinstalled brother-cups-wrapper-extra and ran:

sudo brprintconf_mfc260c -pt A4

after which I could successfully print again.

I suppose I could have run that without purging/reinstalling but I wanted to insure I started with a clean slate. It is very annoying that these printers/scanners/fax-devices cannot simply work with drivers the manufacturers should be maintaining upstream under Free Software licenses.

Thanks for those of you publicizing their solutions.