Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 148019
Kyocera FS1010 ppd file in cups buggy
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:32 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The default ppd file for kyocera FS1010 printer included in cups doesn't work properly. Some programs won't print at all, some print garbled postscipt some work unreliably. A MIT licensed file that does work is here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/PPD/Kyocera/current/English/Kyocera_Mita_FS-1010_English.ppd This file worked with openoffice and several gnome apps. The information i found to make the printer work is here: http://www.linuxprinting.org/kyocera-faq.html Matt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.8.5 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attach printer 2.Configure default printer driver 3. try printing from various CUPS compliant apps. Actual Results: Various: Somtimes simple files print. Sometimes you just get a flashing data light on printer. or garbled output in postscript. or nothing. Expected Results: I would like things to print correctly. Additional info: Seems like other people have had similar problems hence the linuxprinting page.
Is the problem reproducible? For instance, if a file fails to print and you try to print it again, will it fail the second time as well?
Yes, although it's possible the printer gets into a weird state after the first attempted print so i normally switched it off and tried again from scratch, this is particularly true if it prints postscript which also results in it printing many many pages - in this case I had to switch it off to retry. Since changing the ppd i haven't had problem with any of the gnome apps or openoffice.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Foomatic now ships with the manufacturer's own PPDs.