Bug 38430
| Summary: | Printer driver broken in 7.1 (windoze printer...) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | William W. Austin <waustin> |
| Component: | printconf | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | waustin |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-01-24 18:10:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I get exactly the same problem with HP1100 Hmm, I get almost an inch of output on my HP 2100. But, then again, I don't get the bonus garbage pages <grin>. I've tried each of the three drivers in the database, including ljet4. All worked well until upgrade to 7.1. Printer still prints fine from "that other OS," so printer hardware and PCL interpretation seem to be ruled out as causes. A significant additional observation: connecting the printer directly to the Linux host resolves the problem. Data is somehow being mangled during transmission to the SMB server. So, the problem is not with the driver, but with the transport. Duh: Setting translate /n to /r/n to "no" solves my problem. Sorry for any inconvenince due to this false lead.... Solved my problem as well I think it would be useful to post as an errata somewhere, as it is not someting you would expect to happen IMHO After a frustrating several days -- had to print out about a dozen reports/research papers and all had color illustrations in them and would not print -- I finally (desperation) removed the current LPRng and configuration tool and installed the 7.0 versions (LPRng-3.6.24-2 and printtool-3.54-1). Everything now works correctly. However, I'll go back to the 7.1 rpms tonight and try the translation change suggested above. Thanks for the suggestion/info. I removed the 7.0 printer stuff (LPRng-3.6.24-2, printtool-3.54-1, and rhs-printfilters-1.81-1) and (just to be safe) removed /var/spool/lpd/* and /etc/printcap. I then reinstalled LPRng-3.7.4-22, printconf-0.2.12-1, and printconf-gui-0.2.12-1 and re-added my printers but this time setting translate /n to /r/n to "no" as described above. This appears to solve the problem on the deskjet printer. Thanks for the help, folks, and I *do* agree that this "quirk" -- if not a bug outright -- is definitely worth putting into the errata somewhere since if is the opposite of previous printer configurations from RedHat. ascii test page prints, but postscript does not. print conf seems not able to remember settings for postscript, as Rerender postscript is unchecked every time I go back. Defaults to 'on' in printconf-0.3.62-1. |
I did a fresh install to 7.1 last week (deluxe set if it matters) and while nearly everything else works very well, I am having a problem with printing to a windoze box. Although my *other* 2 printers -- one PS and one HPPCL -- work fine on my 7.1 box (both on jetdirect), I cannot successfully print anything but text to the HP970Cse on my windows box. (the printer is shared there and the sharing works fine otherwise) If I go to my 7.0 box, it can print to this printer just fine, AND I can bring up vmware on my 7.1 box (thanks to the patch posted on the Seawolf list) and print postscript or hppcl to it just fine that way. However after going through the configuration as follows: Queue type: Windows Printer (SMB Share) ---------- Share: //(machine name)/hp970cse Workgroup: STUPIDITY Host IP: (ip address) User: (irrelevant -- works same with or without user name/password) Password: (see 'User', above) Translate \n => \rn: selected Driver: Deskjet 970Cse or anything else using cdj550 (I have tried several other all using cdj550 -- same results) Driver Options: -------------- Set EOT: Selected Rerenderer PS: (seems irrelevent here -- the results are the same whether selected or not) (BTW, I haven't found where the "Rerender" option is documented anywhere in the release notes) Then of course, I apply the changes stopping and restarting lpd. I also did a manual /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart just to be safe -- no difference. I can print text to this printer from my 7.1 box; however, when I try the button Test->Print Postscript Test Page I get ONLY the top 1/4" of the postscript output -- that is I get the top of the box down almost to the bottom of the (text) '0.5"' marking just below that. Then the page ejects and I start getting garbage pages. This test works correctly to my other 2 printers here, AND I can successfully print PS to this printer from my 7.0 box or from vmware -- so I suspect a problem with either setup error or the driver.