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Re: [opensuse-amd64] Printing woes under 10.2
- From: Klaus Singvogel <kssingvo@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:41:42 +0200
- Message-id: <20070413114142.GA29191@xxxxxxx>
Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
> richard (MQ) wrote:
> > Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
> >> The printer prints the test page from inside YAST perfectly well. And
> >> it also prints the test page from inside the CUPS administration tool
> >> (http://127.0.0.1:631) without any problem, even the fine radial lines 1
> >> degree apart. It also works fine from inside openoffice. But when I
> >> try to print from inside firefox or Thunderbird, it seems it wants to
> >> print the Postscript instructions rather than executing them.
Problem is not known by me.
> > I have the same problems with an old HP laserjet, both on AMD64 and i386
> > installations (and various SuSE / openSuSE versions since about 9.3
> > right up to 10.2. Yet to try it in 10.3a2). Solution was to select a
> > different PPD during YaST install - I usually use LJ5 - then it all
> > works nicely.
What was the name of the (bad) PPD?
> The printer in question is displayed as CUPS/xxxxx. I did some more
> troubleshooting by watching the output of 'tail -n 200 -f
> /var/log/cups/error_log' and 'tail -n 200 -f
> /var/log/cups/access_log'. In the former (which apparently does not log
> only errors but also other important information),
Just set "LogLevel debug" in file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (and dont
forget to do the "rccups force-reload").
> The steps are always the same: invoke 'pstops', then the 'foomatic-rip'
> filter, and then the 'socket' backend. I guess this is done by the PPD
> file for the printer. So, with exactly the same sequence, the firefox
> output on the printer is PS commands (garbage) while the output of the
> test files is what it should be.
You might got installed the wrong driver (PPD file). There are
printer models, which have a PostScript interpreter and others
(with the same name) dont have. Maybe installation of a different
driver (PPD file) is the solution?
> Going further, I asked firefox to print to a file. Here it gets
> interesting. If I open the file with KGhostscript and then print it
> from inside KGHostscript, the file prints fine! If I do the same from
> other PS viewers (e.g. 'gv'), the output is garbage again. I also get
> the same garbage if I queue a PDF file directly to the printer.
>
> All this seems to point towards some incompatibility of the Postscript
> format with the 'foomatic-rip' filter. It seems that KGhostview somehow
> makes some (perhaps minor) reformatting, which makes its output
> compatible with the 'foomatic-rip' filter.
'foomatic-rip' hasn't changed much between 10.0 and 10.3a2 (only
a few lines), so I doubt that this the origin of the issue. Other
things have changed more: cups, ghostscript, drivers.
> I have done sooooo much googling trying to solve this problem! I think
> I read somewhere that the 'foomatic-rip' filter should be avoided. I am
> not sure where I read it. The driver invoked by CUPS is the generic
> 'Foomatic/hpijs' driver, which is provided by HP and is used on many
> other HP printers. I guess it was the same driver I was using under
> SuSE 10.0_x64.
hpijs is changing recently. So I doubt that it is the same driver
used in 10.3a2 and 10.0.
I think best solution is to open a new bugzilla at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/ and explain the full issue there.
(Dont forget to choose "Printing" as Component :-)
Another helpful source of information is
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
Regards,
Klaus.
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5 E-Mail: Klaus.Singvogel@xxxxxxx
90409 Nuernberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740530
Germany GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D 1994-06-27
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> richard (MQ) wrote:
> > Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
> >> The printer prints the test page from inside YAST perfectly well. And
> >> it also prints the test page from inside the CUPS administration tool
> >> (http://127.0.0.1:631) without any problem, even the fine radial lines 1
> >> degree apart. It also works fine from inside openoffice. But when I
> >> try to print from inside firefox or Thunderbird, it seems it wants to
> >> print the Postscript instructions rather than executing them.
Problem is not known by me.
> > I have the same problems with an old HP laserjet, both on AMD64 and i386
> > installations (and various SuSE / openSuSE versions since about 9.3
> > right up to 10.2. Yet to try it in 10.3a2). Solution was to select a
> > different PPD during YaST install - I usually use LJ5 - then it all
> > works nicely.
What was the name of the (bad) PPD?
> The printer in question is displayed as CUPS/xxxxx. I did some more
> troubleshooting by watching the output of 'tail -n 200 -f
> /var/log/cups/error_log' and 'tail -n 200 -f
> /var/log/cups/access_log'. In the former (which apparently does not log
> only errors but also other important information),
Just set "LogLevel debug" in file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (and dont
forget to do the "rccups force-reload").
> The steps are always the same: invoke 'pstops', then the 'foomatic-rip'
> filter, and then the 'socket' backend. I guess this is done by the PPD
> file for the printer. So, with exactly the same sequence, the firefox
> output on the printer is PS commands (garbage) while the output of the
> test files is what it should be.
You might got installed the wrong driver (PPD file). There are
printer models, which have a PostScript interpreter and others
(with the same name) dont have. Maybe installation of a different
driver (PPD file) is the solution?
> Going further, I asked firefox to print to a file. Here it gets
> interesting. If I open the file with KGhostscript and then print it
> from inside KGHostscript, the file prints fine! If I do the same from
> other PS viewers (e.g. 'gv'), the output is garbage again. I also get
> the same garbage if I queue a PDF file directly to the printer.
>
> All this seems to point towards some incompatibility of the Postscript
> format with the 'foomatic-rip' filter. It seems that KGhostview somehow
> makes some (perhaps minor) reformatting, which makes its output
> compatible with the 'foomatic-rip' filter.
'foomatic-rip' hasn't changed much between 10.0 and 10.3a2 (only
a few lines), so I doubt that this the origin of the issue. Other
things have changed more: cups, ghostscript, drivers.
> I have done sooooo much googling trying to solve this problem! I think
> I read somewhere that the 'foomatic-rip' filter should be avoided. I am
> not sure where I read it. The driver invoked by CUPS is the generic
> 'Foomatic/hpijs' driver, which is provided by HP and is used on many
> other HP printers. I guess it was the same driver I was using under
> SuSE 10.0_x64.
hpijs is changing recently. So I doubt that it is the same driver
used in 10.3a2 and 10.0.
I think best solution is to open a new bugzilla at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/ and explain the full issue there.
(Dont forget to choose "Printing" as Component :-)
Another helpful source of information is
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
Regards,
Klaus.
--
Klaus Singvogel
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5 E-Mail: Klaus.Singvogel@xxxxxxx
90409 Nuernberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740530
Germany GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D 1994-06-27
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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