Bug 66832

Please attach /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl.  Thanks.

Created attachment 61326 [details]
/etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl  as requested by  twaugh

Is this printer connected to the parallel port?  If so, what does  
  cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/*/autoprobe*  
say?  
  
I suspect that this printer doesn't have PJL capability at all when the  
foomatic database thinks that it does.  It's a FS-680?  
  
Could you please try editing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/311113.xml 
and removing the line that says: 
    <pjl/> 
Then try removing and re-adding the print queue in printconf-gui. 
 
Thanks.

cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/*/autoprobe* says:
CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:FS-680;
MANUFACTURER:Kyocera;
DESCRIPTION:Kyocera FS-680;
COMMAND SET:PCL5E,PJL;


removing the reference to <pjl/> makes no difference, nor does taking out the
PJL from <commandset>PCL5E,PJL</commandset>. Print queue removed and re-added ok.

No difference at all?  You still get PJL stuff even when the <pjl/> line has 
been entirely removed? 
 
On the client side, are you printing to a PostScript printer? (If not, do.)

There are small changes, (1st line 1st page reads %!PS-Adobe2.0
                                                      %%DocumentFonts: Courier
Times-Bold
0 768 moveto (@PJL COMMENT KYOCERA GPC 3.174) show

but yes, I still am getting PJL stuff.

When I take your second suggestion and choose a postscript printer in win 98,
(HP laserjet 4M postscript - there is no generic postscript and that is the
closest I can find) I get a whole lot of postscript commands, but no proper
printing. Gaaah. !

This: "0 768 moveto (@PJL COMMENT KYOCERA GPC 3.174) show" tells me that the  
PJL command is being generated on the other machine, not on the Red Hat Linux  
machine.  It looks for all the world like the client is saying 'print this as  
text', and the server is rendering it as PostScript.  
  
Client-side bug of some sort. 
 
Please attach your /etc/smb.conf; also, which share are you printing to?

Created attachment 61584 [details]
smb.conf file

I am printing to the lp printer. The wacky thing is that this used to work well
for these types of reports. I am not trying to get something new to work,
something has broken, around the time of the upgrade from rh7.0->7.3 upgrade.
Weird huh !. and why do some Access reports print and others fail to.

Bizarre.  What happens if you downgrade to the version of LPRng that came with 
Red Hat Linux 7.0?  'rpm -Uvh --oldpackage LPRng-...'

 rpm -Uvh --nodeps --oldpackage /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/LPRng-3.6.24-2.i386.rpm

Very Strange. That doesn't work either for this Access report. I get a page that
is different to the others - it starts %!PS-Adobe-2.0 - this is from the win98
to the remote linux printer. I restarted lpd after making the changes, and put
back the original xml definitions (after trying them with our mods). This is so
frustrating ...

Is there any way you can set up a (for example) Red Hat Linux 7.2 system to 
test with, so that we can narrow down the problem a bit further?  The printing 
system changed quite a lot between 7.0 and 7.3.

Not really. 
I really am stuck with 7.3. (BTW) I find that some word docs also produce the
same result. We are looking at migrating the print services to one of the
windows boxes, as this is just hurting us too much.I have spent my 3 days
playing with it and it is now time to move on. If it can't be done with 7.3, it
is not going to get done I am afraid, as this box is our internal development
box, and pulling it down is too expensive.

Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the
'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update
support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006.

If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present
in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version
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Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a
security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.

Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
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Closing as CANTFIX.