On Saturday 16 February 2008 08:53, Stan Goodman wrote:
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The problem that surfaced a couple of weeks ago, after the printer had been installed for months, and had been working well all that time.
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. Perhaps the problem is in the stand-alone print server?
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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
(I have compressed this horizontally, in order to avoid breaking lines. Actually, each of the second and third segments begins only just below the ending of the segment above, so that it is all spread across the top of the page.)
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.
The CUPS page for this printer shows that this printer is: "idle, accepting jobs, published."
The CUPS error log for the printing attempt is as follows:
I [14/Feb/2008:20:12:28 +0200] Adding start banner page "none" to job 7. I [14/Feb/2008:20:12:28 +0200] Adding end banner page "none" to job 7. I [14/Feb/2008:20:12:28 +0200] Job 7 queued on "Brother" by "stan". I [14/Feb/2008:20:12:28 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib64/cups/backend/lpd (PID 6901) for job 7. I [14/Feb/2008:20:15:53 +0200] commptr="" I [14/Feb/2008:20:15:53 +0200] Started "/usr/lib64/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=6982) I [14/Feb/2008:20:16:02 +0200] commptr="" I [14/Feb/2008:20:16:02 +0200] Started "/usr/lib64/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=6984) I [14/Feb/2008:20:16:02 +0200] commptr="1+0+4+requested-attributes=all" I [14/Feb/2008:20:16:02 +0200] Started "/usr/lib64/cups/daemon/cups-deviced" (pid=6985) E [14/Feb/2008:20:16:04 +0200] [CGI] Can't find HylaFAX program /usr/sbin/sendfax
I do not know what the line about HylaFAX is at the end. HylaFAX is not present at all on the machine, although it was for a time. The problem began well before I ever downloaded HylaFAX.
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?
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-- Stan Goodman
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