From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: I Have a HP2200 B&W printer, supporting PS level2. In order to print PS level 3 documents, I set "ghostscript prefiltering" option to "convert to PS level 2" and get garbage. "convert to PS level 1" works (slow). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure jet direct HP2200 using poscript driver and "ghostscript prefiltering" set to "convert to PS level 2" 2.try to print anything 3. Actual Results: First page contains stair-stepped Q q[1 0 0 1 0 0]concat 36 47 true[1 0 0 1 -1623 -7558]@X imagemask !!%Ma!! and then I get lot of empty pages. Expected Results: Something reasonable should be printed. Additional info: Last message: Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - '/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_mfomatic.pl: running: level=1; echo -en "%!\n<</HWResolution[600 600]>>setpagedevice\n<</ManualFeed false>>setpagedevice\n"; if (( $level > 0 )); then if (( $level < 99 )); then level=" -dLanguageLevel=$level"; else level=""; fi; gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite$level -sOutputFile=- -; else cat; fi' This, in connection with reported PCL-driver problems (filed as foomatic problems) makes HP2200 hardly usable.
This has similaries to bug #42663.
I cannot reproduce problems reported in bug #42663. I cannot reproduce my original problems after upgrade to foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7, ghostscript-6.51-16, glibc-2.2.4-19.3, neither. From the time perspective, I think ghostscript might have been the culprit but I am not sure. I am going to test the printing now a little and report later.
Okay, thanks.
I am basically confident now it is a ghostscript's problem. Conversions with ghostscript-6.51-16 works relatively reliably as opposed to older versions (I have got some unconfirmed problems reports) but the fonts get damaged: topmost parts of the letters are moved (wrapped around?). Intrestingly, output obtained by running gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -dLanguageLevel=2 -sOutputFile=output.ps input.ps and browsed with gv does not show such features (the font seem to be converted to a bitmap, though). I wonder if the reason could be that HP2200 has resolution 1200dpi which is much higher that screen's.
Okay, I will close this bug report, since the original problem is gone. (I've also noticed wrapped-around characters on one printer here though.)