Description of problem: I've been having trouble with printers hanging while printing output generated by the cups pdftops filter. I've attached the problem PDF. The problem page is page number 5. I will also attach the captured output that would be sent to the printer stripped to just page 5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.2-0.2.rc1.2.8 How reproducible: Everytime Printers tested with are a HP LaserJet 5M and a Ricoh Aficio 7200. The HP generates a 79 Service Error and I have to power cycle. The Ricoh simply hangs saying "Processing..." and I have to power cycle. The Ricoh accepts raw PDF and prints that fine. I can also print the file using acroread.
Created attachment 128224 [details] PDF that hangs our printers
Created attachment 128225 [details] CUPS processed output for HP LaserJet 5M
Created attachment 128226 [details] CUPS processed output for Ricoh Aficio 7200
If you downgrade CUPS to 1.1.23-30.2, by fetching the packages from ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS and running: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage cups-*.rpm on those packages, then restart CUPS with '/sbin/service cups restart', and try to print again, does the problem still occur?
Created attachment 128256 [details] CUPS 1.1.23-30.2 processed output for Ricoh 7200 Still hangs the printer. Output is slightly different so I attached for reference.
Still hangs with cups 1.2.3-1.2
Could you please try 1.2.6-1.3.fc5 from updates-testing? yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update 'cups*' Thanks.
Still the same. With the Ricoh I get 4 pages of gabled output then the hang. WIth the HP it prints 2-4 pages then hangs with the service error.
Still the same with cups-1.3.3-3.fc8
I see something similar with an HP LaserJet 6MP: it just doesn't give any output when using the PostScript driver. Trying with raster drivers such as hpijs or gutenprint gives good results. My best guess is that the PostScript for page 5 does not fit into the printer's memory, whereas the PDF does. If you try the hpijs driver instead of the PostScript driver with the HP LaserJet 5M, do you also see correct output? I have no work-around to suggest for the Ricoh model, unfortunately.
hpijs does work. I'd be surprised if it's a memory thing (directly) with the Ricoh - it does have 256MB of memory, which seems to be a fair amount. The 5M is pretty limited on memory.
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