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From: rich on 9 Jun 2010 06:46 On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:37:12 -0700, Owain wrote: > On 8 June, 16:46, rich wrote: >> Just tried Evince in Linux Mint 9 and I did find a problem with it. A >> simple pdf printed but more complicated - a landscape page from a >> magazine failed. Don't know why. Maybe the same with Adobe. > > Okayyy.... I can print web pages from Firefox. > > I can print 4 pages of a 16 page PDF from Firefox with the Acrobat plug > in. I can print from disk using file:// in acrobat. Which is a pain, but > a work-around. Beats me, I wonder if these are bypassing the spooler, maybe someone here can give an answer. > >> Go to the printer administration and check that under the server >> settings "Publish shared printers ...." is enabled. Same for your >> printer, in settings, policies enable "Shared" > > There's a button on the CUPS internal web page that says 'unpublish > printer' so I assume it is published? Always dangerous to assume anything, but in this case you are probably correct. > >> Are there any error messages that might give a clue? > > Sadly not. The jobs list as completed in 'completed job view' but don't > pop out the printer - AFAICS from the printer lights they don't make it > to the printer BICBW > >> Out of interest, which printer driver (its on your printer test page) >> are you using? >> I can't see much available for a KonicaMinolta printer setup. > > Would that be foomatic? It almost has to be for your printer, in particular it is the foo2zjs package. These references are old but might be worth a try. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=113444&page=2 this one says not to use the KonicaMinolta driver, use the Minolta driver. http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ This is just background on the driver. If you need to test you can always have the same physical printer installed more than once but using different drivers, just give it a different name during setup. I have a Canon inkjet that uses a canon driver (very mediocre) and a better turboprint driver, when I come to print I can select either. Which brings me to clutching at straws, the latest ghostscript 8.71 is buggy and breaks my turboprint driver, sorted by downgrading to ver 8.62. Might be worth a try although you will have to seek out an alternative repository (maybe debian - lenny) If you already have not done so, maybe try the hardware section on the Ubuntu forum, a pretty intolerent bunch there but thats Ubuntu. -- rich
From: Nigel Wade on 9 Jun 2010 07:30 Is there anything useful in the CUPS log files, usually located in /var/ log/cups? At least that's where they on my systems, I don't know where, or if, Ubuntu records that info. -- Nigel Wade
From: chris on 11 Jun 2010 11:03 On 01/06/10 15:30, Owain wrote: > Ubuntu 9.04 and a Konica 2430 DL on USB > > I can get a Ubuntu test page from the printer management screen (GPL > Postscript version 3010 revision 864) and I can print from Firefox. > > I cannot print PDFs from either Acrobat or Evince. The print jobs show > up as completed in the print jobs list. Interestingly, I've just had this happen to me. More specifically it's just one page in a PDF document that refuses to print. When the print job reaches that page, it simply stops and disappears from the queue with no errors. This is in Centos 5.5 and Acroread 9.3.2 (and BTW I get the same on my Mac).
From: Owain on 11 Jun 2010 11:10 On 11 June, 16:03, chris wrote: > > I can get a Ubuntu test page from the printer management screen (GPL > > Postscript version 3010 revision 864) and I can print from Firefox. > > I cannot print PDFs from either Acrobat or Evince. The print jobs show > > up as completed in the print jobs list. > Interestingly, I've just had this happen to me. More specifically it's > just one page in a PDF document that refuses to print. When the print > job reaches that page, it simply stops and disappears from the queue > with no errors. > This is in Centos 5.5 and Acroread 9.3.2 (and BTW I get the same on my Mac). Acroread 9.3.2 here too! Owain
From: Owain on 30 Jun 2010 18:50
Well, I'm not sure why, but I installed a new printer using a network connection instead of USB, and set the printer up as a IPP printer. Seems to work so far <touch wood> Owain |