On Saturday 16 February 2008 12:02, Stan Goodman wrote:
On Saturday 16 February 2008 19:07:18 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Saturday 16 February 2008 08:53, Stan Goodman wrote:
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The printer is Brother HL-1250. It is on the network, connected through a H-P 175x external print server.
A quick check on the Web suggests this is not a PostScript-capable printer.
I would be happy to get it to print the same files as it printed without complaint until a few weeks ago. What I have been trying to print are plain text files, e.g. from Kmail and Kwriter, and HTML files.
Yes, but it certainly is a clue that PostScript is being sent to a printer that is not capable of interpreting PostScript.
Perhaps the problem is in the stand-alone print server?
The problem appeared while I was still using a print server that has since malfunctioned under warranty, H-P has replaced it with a new one, and the behavior is the same. In other words, what you suggest would require that both devices have the same fault. Anything is possible, but that seems far fetched.
I'm not saying print server has a problem, but rather that its configuration is the source or a contributing factor in the problem you're experiencing.
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The printing at the top is like so:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 420 595 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 419.55 595.25
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The print spooler is sending PostScript to the printer. Either the printer does not support it or the spooler is not sending the proper preamble to switch the printer from it's default language (probably PCL) to PostScript.
I do not know why it speaks of Adobe 3.0. That has to be a remnant from something from long-ago in another OS.
This is the software that generated the print job saying that it is encoded using PostScript Level 3.
Impossible. The only copy of Acroreader on the machine is v8. Acroreader v3 is antediluvian software, and has never been in this openSuSE v10.3 installation. To be certain of that, I have done
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Huh? I didn't say anything about Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader (of any version). I said the document being sent to the printer identifies itself as being PostScript Level 3. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader _don't work with PostScript_, they work with PDF. PostScript and PDF, while related, are completely distinct things.
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It seems like there's some serious malconfiguration in your printing system. You could start over and define a new printer configuration for this device?
Another possibility that suggests itself is that something is converting innocent plain-text files into Postscript on the way to the printer. It would have to be something old enough to remember Acroreader v3.0.
Again, Adobe Reader and / or Adobe Acrobat have _nothing to do with this_. And if some element of the print system believes the printer it is targeting is a PostScript printer, then naturally it is going to convert anything being printed on that device (from the the plainest of text to the fanciest of graphics-laden, typographically refined documents) into PostScript. That is how _all_ printing is done with PostScript printers. That's why I'm suggesting that something in your system has been mis-configured as if your Brother printer is a PostScript printer.
... Stan Goodman
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