Bug 145246
| Summary: | Postscript printing troubles | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Carlos Rodrigues <cefrodrigues> | ||||||
| Component: | cups | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | bobgus | ||||||
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| Hardware: | athlon | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-02-02 20:06:42 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Carlos Rodrigues
2005-01-15 21:38:45 UTC
Please attach the output of 'printconf-tui --Xexport' from the FC3 machine. Created attachment 110396 [details]
printconf-tui --Xexport
This is the output from "printconf-tui --Xexport" as requested. I already had
removed the printer and added it again, don't know if it matters.
Is sulaco.intranet.pt the RH9 machine? If so, what version of CUPS is it running? How about if you upgrade it to 1.1.23 if that's not what it's running? It's "cups-1.1.17-13.3.0.6.legacy". But I personally don't think that the problem is related to the server-side cups, because it has been running fine for ages (and the print queue is plain RAW), and at the same time I was having troubles printing from FC3, another machine printed fine from Windows (XP, also using IPP directly). I don't print often, but the problems seem to have went away. Maybe the printer reconfiguration placed a new ppd in /etc/cups/ppd and that was the source of the problem (old ppd + new cups). But don't trust me ;) Anyway, this to say that I'm not sure that this bug is valid anymore. However, the PPD being the problem or not, I guess a new CUPS install should also update the PPDs in /etc/cups/ppd (the ones copied there by cups itself). But I guess this could be considered an enhancement and not a bug. Created attachment 112006 [details] Output from printconf-tui --Xexport I know this bug is closed, but I am getting the same vague problems. I have a true postscript printer (HP 2100M). I would like for cups to do as little as possible to the files headed for the printer. I have copied in the mfg ppd file and that seems to be listed on the Cups 'Printer Test Page' in the box labeled Interpreter Information. As the original bug submitter, I have been running this printer for years and it has been working well, although there was always a certain amount of agony involved in getting it to work when installing a new 'clean' version of Fedora. I needed to reload Fedora over the weekend when I over ambitiously tried to go from F3 core + update-released to Rawhide. Somehow lost all my soft links in the /lib/modules directory (but this is another story). I installed a clean FC3 and then installed the updates using the unmodified up2date channels. This involved about 650+ MB of .hdr and .rpm downloads. Then copied in the ppd, a bit of trial and error on the printer configuration as I had done before and printed out a couple of Test pages. So far, things working well. Then am trying to print an OpenOffice text document. Strange symptoms (but ones I have seen in the past under similar 'initial configuration' setting). The printer light blinks as if it is receiving a file, then it stops blinking and goes to normal green idle. BUT, NO PAPER COMES OUT. Going into http://localhost:631/ and looking at jobs, all the non-printing jobs show as 'completed' along with the Test jobs. As before, I stop and then restart the printer - usually this would jog things into working, but not this time. The printer has a jet-direct interface and is on a network with Macs and a solitary Windows XP machine. These other machines can print with no problem and no wrassle with the config (although the Windows machine prints through some 'HP Mobile Printing' thingy - I need to click on Print and then a different dialog Print again - a bit annoying). I have rebooted several times - still same symptoms. Printing is pretty basic to a home or small business machine. If I were a paranoid fellow, this continuing printer configuration problem would get me thinking. The documentation available to a 'trial and error' fellow like myself is not very goal oriented. On the localhost:631 page, clicking 'Help' and then opening the 'User Manual', I see things that appear to be definitions and not 'how to' oriented paragraphs. I wonder where the command 'printconf-tui --Xexport' is found? So, enough of my ranting and raving. Basically I need some help to get the printed paper coming out of my printer. I can post whatever is needed. OK, fixed my problem [root@hoho2 cups]# lpoptions -o raw [root@hoho2 cups]# How did I find this? Just read the whole HELP, User Manual, from beginning to end. Why does it work? Beats me. There still are issues out there for the person trying to figure out how to get a printer working under CUPS. Note that the command 'lpoptions -o raw' apparently does not survive a reboot. It needs to be done again after reboot. |