From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I am using a HP Deskjet 1600CM native postscript printer with an internal JetDirect card (ethernet interface). I set up a print queue using printconf-gui, and choosing the postscript driver with all default settings. When I try and print a postscript test page, or any postscript file, I get a page from the printer with the following error message: ERROR: configurationerror OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice STACK: From what little I know of postscript, I think that perhaps the printer driver is sending some commands to set the page type that are not recognized. Is this a known problem, and if so, is there a config option to turn off the offending command? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up new printer queue, for HP Deskjet 1600CM 2. Choose jetdirect interface 3. Choose postscript driver 4. Try printing US letter postscript test page Actual Results: I get a page from the printer with the following error message: ERROR: configurationerror OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice STACK: Expected Results: A nice test page comes out of the printer Additional info: I have printed files to the printer from other machines (eg a solaris box running HP jetadmin to manage print queues). The printer works fine.
Please attach the output of 'printconf-tui --Xexport'.
Created attachment 89424 [details] output of printconf-tui --Xexport The printer causing trouble is the one with queue name dj1600
Does enabling the 'rerender postscript' option (in the printconf tool) help any?
I assume you mean "prerender postscript" not "rerender postscript". It worked! Problem fixed. Thank you! Please mark bug as "resolved". [Does this mean that the postscript interpreter inside the printer is simply being bypassed and that the postscript interpretation is being done "before" data is sent to the printer?]
Yes (actually the option has changed name since 7.3). It means that the PostScript is converted to Level 2 using ghostscript. The real rendering is still done at the printer. Okay, marking resolved.