Sometimes, ghostscript outputs stuff to stdout in addition to the expected output to the printer. (Specifically, this happens when it is interpreting postscript files generated using MS Windows' print driver) This leads to distorted printer output. The recommended fix is to change the "we're using ghostscript" section of the ps-to-printer.fpi file to the following. # we're using ghostscript GSTMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/printfilter_XXXXXX` eval "$mpage_cmd | gs -q -sDEVICE=$GSDEVICE \ -r$RESOLUTION \ -sPAPERSIZE=$PAPERSIZE \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dSAFER \ -sOutputFile=$GSTMPFILE \ $COLOR \ $EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS \ - > /dev/null" cat $GSTMPFILE rm -f $GSTMPFILE fi The changes made, in summary, are 1) setting the GSTMPFILE variable using mktemp 2) setting the -sOutputFile parameter of gs to $GSTMPFILE 3) redirecting stdout of gs to /dev/null 4) catting and rm'ing the temp file after running gs.
Can you mail me (not the bug system) an example of such a printout?
*** Bug 257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When I try to use this filter, I get the following error printed: Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops (1488)op_array(486)0x817b0d4:E This was with it configured for black and white printing. My printer is a deskjet 400. Using the Deskjet 500 driver seems to be a workaround. ------- Additional Comments From dclark 12/05/98 13:11 ------- I get the same error using the "HP 550C/450C/6xxC series" driver for my HP DeskJet 600C printer under RedHat 5.2. I did not have this problem under 5.1. In addition to the error that is printed out which is mentioned in the initial bug report, this also comes up on the console: stdin: is not a tty/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: /root/general.cfg: No such file or directory /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: asc: unary operator expected /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: printer: unary operator expected /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: printer: unary operator expected /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: ps: unary operator expected /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: ps: unary operator expected /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: printer: unary operator expected /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: [: printer: unary operator expected I've tried replacing the rhs-printfilters, ghostscript, ghostscript-fonts, printtool, and lpr packages with the RH5.1 versions without success (However I do get different error messages when I do this). ------- Additional Comments From dclark 12/05/98 14:30 ------- Setting the filter for 2 pagers per output page seems to make this problem also happen under the "DeskJet 500" driver when printing the Postscript Test Page. No console messages appear, but the Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops (1488)op_array(486)0x817b0d4:E happens. ------- Additional Comments From notting 12/08/98 11:13 ------- Hmm. It appears the cdj550 driver for ghostscript is broken for 1bpp mode. What you can do to work around this is: - go into the input filter settings in printtool, and set the 'Color Depth' to 8 for B&W printing. - use the DeskJet 500 or some other mostly-compatible driver ------- Additional Comments From notting 12/10/98 17:44 ------- *** Bug 288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** ... at least from netscape. I tried both Netscape 4.05-4 and (after) I tried Communicator 4.07-1. I am not sure if the problem is with Netscape or lpr. I am printing locally and I can print from the command line just fine. It even spits it out if I print after netscape chokes on it. It gives the error: "Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops (1488)op_arrray(486)0x817b0d4:E" [where it goes off the end of the page. Also after .putdeviceprops and before (1488) there is no carriage return] ------- Additional Comments From notting 12/08/98 11:06 ------- What driver are you using? ------- Additional Comments From bubar 12/10/98 15:45 ------- I did a little testing this morning and the problem appears to be ghostscript. I could do all kinds of Text printing but once I sent a postscript test it balked and I had to senda text job to free it.
fixed in rhs-printfilters 1.47-3